Cormac McCarthy
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
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2) Outer Dark
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone...
In that small apartment, “Black” and “White,” as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history,...
The screenplay for McCarthy's classic film, bearing in full measure his gift—the ability to fit complex and universal emotions into ordinary lives and still preserve all of their power and significance
In the spring of 1975 the film director Richard Pearce approached Cormac McCarthy with a screenplay idea. Though already a widely acclaimed novelist, the author of such modern classics as The Orchard Keeper and Child of
...5) Child of God
While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor,...
6) Suttree
Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there—a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters—he...
The boy, John Wesley Rattner, and...
9) The road
10) The passenger
11) Stella Maris
13) Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian is widely recognised as the masterpiece of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy. It is an historical epic, a compelling reinterpretation of the Western, and one of the great American novels of the twentieth century. It tells the story of a teenage runaway known only as 'the kid', who falls in with a group of notorious outlaws: the Glanton Gang. Violent, direct and extraordinarily powerful, the novel traces the destiny
...14) The crossing
In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham—nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know—are cowboys on a...