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Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) was an author. McCarthy is best known for his novels Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men.

Life[]

Born in late July of 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island to an Irish Catholic family, Cormac's family moved to Knoxville, Tennesee when Cormac was only five years old. While in Knoxville, Cormac's father became a lawyer for the Tennessee Valley Authority. Cormac's family were middle class - with Cormac saying that his family were considered rich because "all the people around us were living in one- or two-room shacks." While in Knoxville, Cormac befriended a slightly older boy named Jim Long - who he later made into J-Bone in the novel Suttree.

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Writing style[]

McCarthy is notable for his experimental style and focus on human cruelty and brutality. A large portion of McCarthy's novels are set in the Southwest (including his two best-known novels) and Tennessee (where McCarthy lived for most of his childhood).

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Views[]

McCarthy never publicly revealed his political views, and (according to David Holloway), his works can be read with either a liberal or conservative leaning.

After author Michael Crossan created an account impersonating McCarthy in 2013, McCarthy's publisher revealed that he did not even own a computer.

McCarthy has stated that he only respected/liked authors whose works touch upon matters of life and death. He also didn't like magical realism stating that "It's hard enough to get people to believe what you're telling them without making it impossible. It has to be vaguely plausible." Among his favorite novels are Moby-Dick, Ulysses, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Sound and the Fury.

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Notable works[]

Plays[]

  • The Stonemason - a play about a black family.
  • The Gardener's Sun - a screenplay about a murder in the 1870s. Filmed as a movie in 1977.
  • The Sunset Limited - Sometimes known as a novel due to its subtitle as "a novel in dramatic form". About a black man saving a white man from a suicide attempt.
  • The Counselor - a screenplay about a man becoming a drug-runner due to a desire to get rich quick. Made into a movie by Ridley Scott.

Novels[]

  • The Orchard Keeper - McCarthy's debut novel. Tells of the lives of two renegades in Tennessee.
  • Outer Dark - a novel about a woman searching for her infant son.
  • Child of God - a novel about a Tennesseean serial killer.
  • Suttree - a semi-autobiographical novel similar to Ulysses and Cannery Row.
  • Blood Meridian - a novel about the Glanton Gang
  • No Country for Old Men - a novel about a drug deal gone wrong. Started life as a screenplay.
  • The Road - a dystopian novel.
  • The Passenger - a novel about a salvage diver whose father helped to develop the atom bomb.
  • Stella Maris - McCarthy's final novel and the companion novel to The Passenger.

Border Trilogy[]

  • All the Pretty Horses - a Texan rancher moves into Mexico.
  • The Crossing - In the years before World War II, two boys cross into Mexico.
  • Cities of the Plain - a man falls in love with a Mexican prostitute.

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Sources[]

  • Wikipedia
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