NP but Cormac McCarthy

[Mark Kohut]

i was reading Broke USA, a look at the businesses that exploit the poor, the 
preterites, that have sprung up mostly since Reagan changed the nation. 


The Pay-Day Lending biz started in northeastern Tennessee, which is part of 
early Cormac McCarthy's Yoknapatawpha County. Novels up to Blood Meridian...
 
"this corner of the world has long been the kind of place that gives a man elbow 
room and the ethical leeway to make a
living any way he sees fit. Grundy County, to the west, had long been known 
throughout the region as the car-stripping
capital of the South..............and also known for "shade-tree 
mechanics"....men who made their money rolling back odometers
for unscrupulous auto dealers........they would also work all day banging out 
dents and installing new upholstery, whatever it took 

 to make a car seem to have less real mileage"....---Broke, USA....
 
Cormac's deep understanding of the poor, unmoored---from the Old Country, from 
the American dream; from the moral order "ethical leeway"---people extends to 
the present....