Setting the record straight on 'far and away the best living poet who will be read when others are forgotten' (Thomas Hardy); and also, according to this biographer, a prisoner of a 'self-tormenting, self-doubting temperament, over anxious to give, but too nervous to receive.'
![Wake for Susan [and] A Drowning Incident by McCarthy, C.J.](/images/books/cover/55536_202522315400_cormac_mccarthy_x_2.jpg "Wake for Susan [and] A Drowning Incident by McCarthy, C.J.")
