Cormac McCarthy, long considered one of America’s greatest writers for his violent and bleak depictions of the United States and its borderlands in novels like “Blood Meridian,” “The Road,” “No Country for Old Men” and “All the Pretty Horses,” has…
Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and “All the Pretty Horses,” died Tuesday. He was 89.McCarthy, raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, was compared to William Faulkner for his Old Testament style and rural settings. McCarthy’s themes, like Faulkner’s, often were bleak, violent and dramatized how the past overwhelmed the present.
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Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio | All Of Our Podcasts In 2022, Knopf made the startling announcement that it would release McCarthy’s first work in more than 15 years, a pair of connected novels he referred to in the past: “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris,” narratives on a pair of mutually obsessed siblings and the legacy of their father, a physicist who worked on atomic technology.
McCarthy said he was always lucky. He recalled living in a shack in Tennessee and running out of toothpaste, then going out and finding a toothpaste sample in the mailbox.
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Cormac McCarthy, lauded author of ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men,’ dies at 89McCarthy’s themes, like Faulkner’s, often were bleak and violent and dramatized how the past overwhelmed the present.
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Cormac McCarthy, Author of 'No Country for Old Men' and 'The Road,' Dead at 89The Pulitzer Prize winning author also penned the novels, 'Blood Meridian' and 'All the Pretty Horses.'
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Cormac McCarthy, lauded author of 'The Road' and 'No Country for Old Men,' dies at 89Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and “All the Pretty Horses,” died Tuesday. He was 89.
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Cormac McCarthy, lauded author of ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men,’ dies at 89McCarthy’s themes, like Faulkner’s, often were bleak and violent and dramatized how the past overwhelmed the present.
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Cormac McCarthy, lauded author of 'The Road' and 'No Country for Old Men,' dies at 89Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of novels such as “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men,” has died. He was 89.
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Cormac McCarthy, lauded author of ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men,’ dies at 89REST IN PEACE: Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Road' and 'No Country for Old Men,' has died. He was 89.
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