The novels of the American writer, Cormac McCarthy, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men—the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. He died in 2023.
“McCarthy’s philosophic and erudite dialogue, vivid explosion, and
intriguing characters give the story a unique vitality.”
—Booklist
More Praise for Cormac McCarthy:
“Like the novelists he admires—Melville, Dostoyevsky,
Faulkner—Cormac McCarthy has created an imaginative oeuvre greater
and deeper than any single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods
themselves.” —The Washington Post Book World
“McCarthy’s prose [is] the most laudable, his characters the most
fully inhabited, his sense of place the most bloodworthy and
thoroughly felt of any living writer’s.”—Esquire
“McCarthy is one of the most richly stylized writers in American
letters.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“McCarthy justifies the very worth of fiction in the consummate
breadth and dimension of his work.” —New York Post
“The genius of McCarthy’s work [is] in its bold, seamless melding
of private revelation, cultural insight, and unabashed
philosophizing.” —The Village Voice
“He is nothing less than our greatest living writer.” —Houston
Chronicle
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