The Best Cormac McCarthy Books to Read Right Now
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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 outlook on life was first introduced to the world with his 1965 debut “The Orchard Keeper,” but the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer didn’t enter the mainstream until the release of his later novels “All the Pretty Horses,” “No Country for Old Men” and “The Road,” the acclaimed film adaptations of which brought him a wide readership.
Biblical prose and grim themes run through all of McCarthy’s work, which is set in the American South and West. The MacArthur foundation, of which he was a fellow in 1981, hailed McCarthy’s stories as “distinctively American fiction in the southern gothic and epic western traditions.” Below, check out the best novels to begin your Cormac McCarthy journey — from the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Road” to his final two companion novels, “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris.” Courtesy of Amazon McCarthy’s relentlessly bloody 1985 Western is based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s.
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