Cormac McCarthy
Born: 07-19-1933
Cormac McCarthy was an acclaimed American novelist renowned for his distinctive prose style and exploration of themes like survival, morality, and the human condition. Born in 1933, he gained fame with works such as "All the Pretty Horses," "No Country for Old Men," and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Road." McCarthy's sparse, evocative language and intense narrative depth have earned him a lasting place in contemporary literature.
Book summaries for books written by Cormac McCarthy
Quotes
The past is guise enough.
There’s a calm as to desolation as lives in the gulches beyond breeds of ape.
The black scowl like a darkened sky.
If it could only be that easy. To be so empty of malice. To be so unencumbered.
Ravages of appetite had run their course.
Life's hard but you're young and God is with you.
Winter trees white and cold as bones beneath a moon.
But how to define a torque that drove through the dark streets?
The lamentable business of the world’.
A bushel of cabbage slips its green shackles.
Helly raised his hands. He seemed to rise from the floor as if by levitation. He wove and staggered into the blaze, the fabric of his clothing smoldering and weeping away like paper on coals. A sudden gust of smoke and sparks enwreathed him and then blew away down the river.
All a man needed was a witch and a rifle.