The writer on his lifelong passion for the 'real France' and which, according to Julian Barnes, '... the official 'France' - northern, bureaucratic, centralising - had long ago conquered and attempted to dismantle and to strip of its language: Provence'; illustrations by [Janice] Biala, the author's partner during the 1930s.
![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.")
