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Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American author who wrote twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western, postapocalyptic, and Southern Gothic genres. His works often include graphic depictions of violence, and his writing style is ...
Cormac McCarthy in 1980, by which time he had already been working on Blood Meridian for about five years. McCarthy began writing Blood Meridian in the mid-1970s. [25] In a letter sent around 1979 he said that he had not touched Blood Meridian in six months out of frustration. [6]
Holden is heavily featured in Cormac McCarthy's (pictured) Blood Meridian (1985). A fictionalized Holden is a central character in Cormac McCarthy's 1985 Western novel Blood Meridian. In the novel, he and Glanton are the leaders of a pack of nomadic criminals who rob, rape, torture, and kill across the borderlands between the United States and ...
With 'The Passenger,' his first novel in 16 years, the author long consumed by violent themes turns to cosmic questions about life, death, and God.
Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, is known for the dark and often merciless stories depicted in any of the dozen novels he wrote throughout his life. McCarthy’s inimitable ...
American author, known for novels ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’, died at his home in New Mexico
Though John Grady kills Eduardo, he is mortally wounded in the fight. He survives long enough to contact Billy, who hurries to comfort John Grady before his death. After John Grady's death, a short epilogue—not unlike the conclusion of Blood Meridian (1985)—details, in a few pages, the next several decades of Billy's life. After drifting ...
Cormac McCarthy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who endured decades of obscurity and poverty before film versions of “All the Pretty Horses,” “No Country for Old Men” and “The Road ...