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Hand-drawn and photocopied maps of Saltillo and Zacatecas feature in the archive as part of McCarthy’s research for All the Pretty Horses, while correspondence between McCarthy and a doctor is included with The Crossing. “From a literary standpoint, there is no doubt that the scene well depicts the adversity Boyd faces in the character of the Mexican physician who intervenes. However, from a purely medical view, it doesn’t tie together,” the author is told about a scene depicting Boyd’s surgery in Mexico. He is later provided with advice about “how a competent, rural physician might handle a gunshot wound”. “I wanted you to know these things for the small percentage of readers who are medically sophisticated … I’d get a kick out of having them wonder how in the hell did you know these things,” writes the doctor, who also provided information about the period appropriateness for some of the medical instruments used in the novel, part of McCarthy’s acclaimed Border Trilogy. [Cormac McCarthy archive goes on display in Texas] The Guardian | Alison Flood Via Harper’s

Hand-drawn and photocopied maps of Saltillo and Zacatecas feature in the archive as part of McCarthy’s research for All the Pretty Horses, while correspondence between McCarthy and a doctor is included with The Crossing. “From a literary standpoint, there is no doubt that the scene well depicts the adversity Boyd faces in the character of the Mexican physician who intervenes. However, from a purely medical view, it doesn’t tie together,” the author is told about a scene depicting Boyd’s surgery in Mexico. He is later provided with advice about “how a competent, rural physician might handle a gunshot wound”. “I wanted you to know these things for the small percentage of readers who are medically sophisticated … I’d get a kick out of having them wonder how in the hell did you know these things,” writes the doctor, who also provided information about the period appropriateness for some of the medical instruments used in the novel, part of McCarthy’s acclaimed Border Trilogy.

[Cormac McCarthy archive goes on display in Texas]

The Guardian | Alison Flood

Via Harper’s

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