Cormac McCarthy, lauded author of ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men,’ dies at 89
2023年6月16日小于 1 分钟
Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and “All the Pretty Horses,” died Tuesday. He was 89. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, a Penguin Random House imprint, announced that McCarthy died of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
tips
prose：散文
dense：密集的（dens- = make thick，变浓厚）
brittle：敏感的，脆弱的（同源 break）
laud：称赞；赞美（laud- = praise，赞扬）
desert：沙漠；被遗弃的
imprint：印记；铭刻