All the best Cormac McCarthy info. Opinions about his novels and work. Cormac McCarthy book reviews.
Literary critic Harold Bloom has named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don...
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All the best Cormac McCarthy info. Opinions about his novels and work. Cormac McCarthy book reviews.
Literary critic Harold Bloom has named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. He is frequently compared by modern reviewers to William Faulkner and, less often, Herman Melville.
Wow! If this book was a work of art it would capture the visual meaning of hopelessness on a single canvas. The writing in this book is amazing. It is not only poetic but the style captures the utter bleakness of the story. This book has no chapters and minimal punctuation which adds to the bereft feeling of the book; where even the smallest normalcies like punctuation have been lost. This book was so disturbing that I had to mull it over for a full week before I could put into words what I... Read Full Story
The Bookshelf Though he may have shuffled into the mainstream consciousness only recently for the film adaptation of his novel No Country for Old Men , Cormac McCarthy has been penning novels for years. Anyway, don’t let the Oprah Book Club stickers scare you off—McCarthy is one of the most important authors contemporary fiction writers, and he’s worth taking a look at. The Road , McCarthy’s 2006 effort, earned him a Pulitzer. The novel explores a blistered post-apocalyptic American... Read Full Story
Director John Hillcoat and colleagues, in adapting the Pulitzer-winning work, have toiled to weigh hopelessness against faith .
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This is the fifth and final post in my series of five, describing the works of my five favorite authors, and what each of their writing has meant to me. I’ve enjoyed this project, so I think you can expect to see more “favorites” lists in the near future. Today’s author is Cormac McCarthy.
Cormac McCarthy I consider to be possibly the best American author alive today. He was born in 1933, and has written several novels and plays. He won the Pulitzer for his novel The Road in 2007, and... Read Full Story
Cormac McCarthy wins the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction this year. McCarthy’s fiction parallels his movement from the Southeast to the West—the first four novels being set in Tennessee, the last three in the Southwest and Mexico. The Orchard Keeper (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed by Outer Dark (1968), Child of God (1973), Suttree (1979), and Blood Meridian (1985). All the Pretty Horses, which won the National Book Award and National... Read Full Story
I’ve not read anything quite like this book by Cormac McCarthy . It won a Pulitzer Prize and was featured in Oprah’s Book Club. I’m a bit late catching up on the latest buzz and maybe most folks have already read it.
Global warming would be a picnic at the beach compared to a nuclear winter . In the book, a man and his young son push a shopping cart full of stuff down a road, camp and scavange for food in a dying world following some global calamity. Nuclear war is never mentioned, but... Read Full Story
The Knoxville home where author Cormac McCarthy grew up has been destroyed by a fire. The blaze was discovered by neighbors Tuesday and firefighters found flames shooting from the upper floor of the two-story house, according to The Knoxville News-Sentinel. The house was abandoned. It was included on a list of endangered places by the preservation group Knox Heritage. Investigators hadn't determined a cause. Officials said there have been reports of homeless people on the property but that... Read Full Story
Next up the much talked about Cormac McCarthy book, The Road.
The way in which I'm handling the Fiction Book Club's reading here is not useful. Each month, I've been posting what we're going to read and since I'm usually screeching into our meetings while reading the last few pages, I never have anything useful to say about the next month's book. It would be better if I posted after I've read the book and could include opinion...so going forward, I'll have to change my evil ways... Read Full Story
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author electricnerve - The Road unfolds before the dumbstruck reader as a scorching, God-given masterpiece - regardless of your spiritual colouring and flavouring. After reading Cormac McCarthy's novel i was diagnosed with clinical depression. Still, let's not blame Mr... Read Full Story
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author JiggyJay - This last year of high school I was forced into something I didn’t necessarily have the time for but now that I look back on it and the books I read, it’s safe to say I actually enjoyed being bullied into my school’s Book Club. Now, while I didn’t... Read Full Story
