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Cormac McCarthy

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

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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 American novelis...more


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Average rating: 3.97 · 448,584 ratings · 42,348 reviews · 16 distinct works · Similar authors
The Road
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 274,294 ratings — published 2006 — 118 editions
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No Country for Old Men
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 53,958 ratings — published 2005 — 67 editions
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All the Pretty Horses (The ...
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 37,468 ratings — published 1992 — 73 editions
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Blood Meridian, or the Even...
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 33,862 ratings — published 1985 — 62 editions
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The Crossing (The Border Tr...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 12,401 ratings — published 1994 — 37 editions
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Child of God
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 8,586 ratings — published 1973 — 22 editions
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Cities of the Plain (The Bo...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 7,978 ratings — published 1998 — 38 editions
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Suttree
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 6,558 ratings — published 1979 — 25 editions
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Outer Dark
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 5,133 ratings — published 1968 — 21 editions
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The Border Trilogy: All the...
4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 2,629 ratings — published 1994 — 12 editions
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All the Pretty Horses The Crossing Cities of the Plain
The Border Trilogy (3 books)
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time
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