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Homeless wild at heart book charters1/27/2024 ![]() Rio Grande into Chihuahua, Sonora and Coahuila. ![]() McCarthy doesn't write about places he hasn't visited, and he has made dozens of similar scouting forays to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and across the He had come upon the creature while travelingĪlong an empty road in his 1978 Ford pickup near Big Bend National Park. "Mojave rattlesnakes have a neurotoxic poison, almost like a cobra's," he explains, giving a natural-history lesson on the animal's two color phases and its map of distribution in the West. And he is the sort of silver-tongued raconteur who relishes peculiar sidetracks he leans over his plate and fairly croons the particulars Seldom applying the anesthetic of psychology, McCarthy would much rather orate than confide. A writer who renders the brutal actions of men in excruciating detail, Wants to steer conversation away from himself, and he seems to think that a story about a recent trip he took near the Texas-Mexico border will offer some camouflage. ![]() The question has come up over lunch in Mesilla, N.M., because the hermitic author, who may be the best unknown novelist in America, " You know about Mojave rattlesnakes?" Cormac McCarthy asks. The New York Times: Book Review Search ArticleĪpril 19, 1992, Sunday, Late Edition - Final
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