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Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, Child of God and The Passenger. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country for Old Men – the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of 89.So good that it will devour you. It is incandescent
Telegraph
[<i>The Road</i>,] heartbreaking and haunting, has an overbearing, almost suffocating atmosphere . . . you cannot forget you’ve read it
The Times
McCarthy’s novel was one of the triggers for my writing <i>Room</i>; I wanted to see what a mother-child modern myth would look like, because his father-child one was so powerful
- Emma Donoghue, author of <i>Room</i> and <i>Haven</i>,
The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Andrew O’Hagan, author of <i>Our Fathers</i> and <i>Mayflies</i>,
You will read on, absolutely convinced, thrilled, mesmerized. All the modern novel can do is done here
- Alan Warner, author of <i>Morvern Callar</i>,
McCarthy conjures from this pitiless flight the miracle of unswerving humanity. Gripping beyond belief
- Chris Cleave, Sunday Telegraph
One of the most shocking and harrowing but ultimately redemptive books I have read. It is an intensely intimate story. It is also a warning
- Kirsty Wark, Observer Books of the Year
A masterpiece that will soon be considered a classic
Herald