![]() It’s a western archetype, seen everywhere from the old heroes of Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove to Elmore Leonard’s recontextualised Raylan Givens in Justified.īut Cole is no flat white hat and this no horse opera: it’s a rite of passage story which does not lead toward the light. In John Grady Cole, McCarthy writes every father’s secretly wished-for son: a gentle, principled and courageous man, who does right by his own conscience even though it may lead to destruction. Two decades later I hear the book on its own terms. I’d imagined I bore a flattering likeness to the young protagonist of Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses. ![]() I pack a bag for a week, the longest I’ve spent with him in 30 years.Īs I’m leaving the house, I pick up a book I read while living in Spain in my early 20s. ![]() My father waited almost 20 years after his adopted mother died before deciding this year, at 70, to seek his birth family. ![]()
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