Cormac McCarthy





Cormac McCarthy

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July 20, 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island, The United States

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Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres and has also written plays and screenplays. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, and his 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

His earlier Blood Meridian (1985) was among Time Magazine's poll of 100 best English-language books published between 1925 and 2005 and he placed joint runner-up for a similar title in a poll taken in 2006 by The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years. Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major Amer...more


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Average rating: 3.96 · 243,900 ratings · 33,577 reviews · 14 distinct works
The Road
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 144,134 ratings — published 2006 — 96 editions
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No Country for Old Men
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 30,017 ratings — published 2005 — 58 editions
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All the Pretty Horses
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 23,448 ratings — published 1992 — 59 editions
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Blood Meridian
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 18,423 ratings — published 1985 — 52 editions
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The Crossing
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 7,363 ratings — published 1994 — 32 editions
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Cities of the Plain
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 4,631 ratings — published 1998 — 32 editions
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Child of God
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 4,685 ratings — published 1974 — 17 editions
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Suttree
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 3,604 ratings — published 1979 — 20 editions
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Outer Dark
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 2,903 ratings — published 1968 — 15 editions
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The Border Trilogy: All the Pr...
4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 1,527 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions
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“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.”
Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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