Cormac McCarthy

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

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http://www.cormacmccarthy.com/

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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: 3.96 · 292,687 ratings · 35,512 reviews · 18 distinct works

	The Road 3.93 avg rating — 175,774 ratings — published 2006 — 101 editions	My rating:
	No Country for Old Men 4.01 avg rating — 35,783 ratings — published 2005 — 24 editions	My rating:
	All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 26,709 ratings — published 1992 — 63 editions	My rating:
	Blood Meridian 4.20 avg rating — 21,728 ratings — published 1985 — 52 editions	My rating:
	The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2) 4.06 avg rating — 8,470 ratings — published 1994 — 32 editions	My rating:
	Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3) 3.98 avg rating — 5,363 ratings — published 1998 — 33 editions	My rating:
	Child of God 3.84 avg rating — 5,490 ratings — published 1974 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Suttree 4.19 avg rating — 4,284 ratings — published 1979 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Outer Dark 3.85 avg rating — 3,399 ratings — published 1968 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses / The Crossing / Cities of the Plain 4.41 avg rating — 1,798 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions	My rating:

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The Border Trilogy (3 books)
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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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“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: life

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“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

tags: truth

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