Return of the sun's pandemonium

[rich]

per the buzz in McCarthy land, The Passenger was conceived after Blood
Meridian, so in the 1980s sometime. which indicates a full-fledged novel
not re-furnished plays or screenplays which has been his output most
recently. The description loosely conjures No Country for Old Men, a guy
finds something he shouldn't and mayhem ensues.
I'm guessing (with no evidence) that McCarthy had difficulty molding the
two works into one and finally decided to make it two.
It's interesting mention of a different style than his previous work which
is odd if he's been writing or working on The Passenger for more than 30
years.
I also can't get the Iggy Pop song out of my head now
all in all, in any case, it's good news

rich

On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 7:26 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suggest McCarthy kept working on them, at least that first....to have
> them in the hands of editors/publisher is just in case an 80+ year old guy
> died, I think.
>
> *Suttree* was his fourth published novel, but the first one he started
> writing. Couldn't get it right to his satisfaction. We sorta know by
> circumstantial evidence
> that TRP might have started *Against the Day* not long after the
> publication of* Gravity's Rainbow*. I've recently learned that Roth's first
> deep masterpiece, I and some say,
> *My Life As a Man *was started three books before Roth made it what he
> wanted and published it....
>
> Happens with geniuses who aren't satisfied until.....
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 7:13 AM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > two things about this: one, "Binky" Urban is still in the game and two,
> > there has to be a really interesting story behind why they've been
> sitting
> > on these 2 books for ~8 years and are now suddenly publishing them
> > simultaneously.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 10:26 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/rights/cormac-mccarthy-returns-after-16-years-with-two-new-novels-for-picador-in-2022
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