The death of renowned American novelist Cormac McCarthy, who passed away in June 2023 at 89, has left readers curious about the enigmatic man behind the famous Olivetti typewriter. Despite recent releases of posthumous interviews and his final novels, 'The Passenger' and 'Stella Maris', much remains unknown about his private life and legacy.
This love story may come as a shock, for Cormac McCarthy is one of the most famous American novelists we know the least about. In June 2023, when he died of complications from prostate cancer at the age of 89 surrounded by Cadillacs and Ferraris at his compound in Santa Fe, McCarthy’s hold on literary awareness was at a stage of maximum receptivity. He had just released a dyad of final novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris, turning his death half a year later into an eerie consonance.
There’s loose-leaf notebook pages, blank sheets otherwise destined for a typewriter, napkins—tapestries really, of rugged thread and delicate weave, in which the words all shine through, don’t quite stick to the stitches. Other pages are equally thin to translucence. In fact, there are so many napkin letters, McCarthy begins one that reads, held up to the light: Just back from my stationers—he recommends this new lightweight textural finish very highly.
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