No Prayer for Such a Thing: On Cormac McCarthy’s “The Passenger”
Peggy R. Ellsberg reviews Cormac McCarthy’s “The Passenger.”
Peggy Ellsberg is a poet and scholar who teaches English at Barnard College. She is the author of Created to Praise: The Language of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Oxford University Press, 1987) and editor of The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selections from His Poems, Letters, Journals, and Spiritual Writings (Plough, 2017).
Peggy R. Ellsberg reviews Cormac McCarthy’s “The Passenger.”
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