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Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) was the American novelist behind Blood Meridian, the Border Trilogy, No Country for Old Men, and The Road (Pulitzer Prize, 2007). The Passenger and Stella Maris, his final novels, were published in 2022.

Reviews

3

Books on file

3

Avg rating

5.0

Years active

1985-2006

Reviewed

Our reviews of Cormac McCarthy's work

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What we have said about Cormac McCarthy

  • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 1985 review. A nameless teenager joins a band of Indian-hunters along the Texas-Mexico border in 1849. The most violent American novel of the late twentieth century and the rare McCarthy book that demands the prose attention it requires.

  • No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy 2005 review. A Texas welder finds a satchel of cash at a drug-deal massacre, and the man who comes for it does not stop. Late McCarthy in his cleanest thriller mode.

  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2006 review. A father and son walk south across a burned-out post-apocalyptic America toward an uncertain coast. Pulitzer Prize 2007 and one of the great American novels of the twenty-first century.