Cormac McCarthy
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July 20, 1933
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Providence, Rhode Island, The United States
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Literature & Fiction
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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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The Road by Cormac McCarthy avg rating 4.00 — 44,816 ratings — published 2006 59 editions |
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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy avg rating 3.97 — 11,967 ratings — published 2005 34 editions |
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All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy, Vol 1) by Cormac McCarthy avg rating 3.88 — 10,500 ratings — published 1992 30 editions |
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy avg rating 4.24 — 7,471 ratings — published 1985 21 editions |
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The Crossing (Border Trilogy, Vol 2) by Cormac McCarthy avg rating 4.03 — 3,003 ratings — published 1994 18 editions |
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Cities of the Plain (Border Trilogy, Vol 3) by Cormac McCarthy avg rating 3.91 — 2,075 ratings — published 1998 19 editions |
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Child of God by Cormac McCarthy avg rating 3.83 — 2,046 ratings — published 1974 13 editions |
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Suttree by Cormac McCarthy avg rating 4.20 — 1,578 ratings — published 1979 14 editions |
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Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy avg rating 3.85 — 1,116 ratings — published 1968 11 editions |
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The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses / The Crossing / Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy avg rating 4.38 — 687 ratings — published 1994 9 editions |
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"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)
— 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)
— Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men)
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