Author
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
6
Books on file
6
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Years active
1979-2022
Reviewed
Our reviews of Cormac McCarthy's work
Blood Meridian
by 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
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
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.
Suttree
by Cormac McCarthy
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy 1979 review. An educated Knoxville man lives as a fisherman among the city's underclass. McCarthy's pre-Blood-Meridian comic-tragic masterwork.
Stella Maris
by Cormac McCarthy
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy 2022 review. Alicia Western's seven sessions with a Wisconsin psychiatrist in 1972. McCarthy's final novel and the companion to The Passenger.
The Passenger
by Cormac McCarthy
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy 2022 review. A New Orleans salvage diver investigates a submerged private-jet wreckage. The first of McCarthy's two final novels.
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What we have said about Cormac McCarthy
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy 1979 review. An educated Knoxville man lives as a fisherman among the city's underclass. McCarthy's pre-Blood-Meridian comic-tragic masterwork.
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy 2022 review. Alicia Western's seven sessions with a Wisconsin psychiatrist in 1972. McCarthy's final novel and the companion to The Passenger.
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy 2022 review. A New Orleans salvage diver investigates a submerged private-jet wreckage. The first of McCarthy's two final novels.
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.