Obituary
Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road, No Country for Old Men, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses etc, has died aged 89.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/13/cormac-mccarthy-dead-novelist
Farewell Cormac McCarthy
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He was one of writing’s great’s, R.I.P.
I knew he was in poor health, and his recent two novels have felt very much like a literary Blackstar. I reread the Border trilogy over the last couple of years and its a magnificent achievement. No Country for Old Men and The Road almost feel like another writer, and I’m looking forward to reading his farewell works in due course, with the bittersweet feel that reading Iain M Banks’ last work The Hydrogen Sonata gave me.
The BBC 60s report on News at Ten was brilliant. One photo of him at The Road movie premiere, a photo of one of his books, back to the photo of him at the movie premiere.. he really didn’t go in for all of that.
Blood Meridian.
That’s the one.
Big fan here. The Border trilogy is magnificent- yes the language at times a tad difficult but oh the beauty of his prose; I genuinely wept through much of the 2nd book The Crossing.
No Country For Old Men is probably his most easily approachable novel and even better than the excellent film version.
I read the first of his new books The Passenger earlier this year and was both confounded and astounded at the same time – often just marvelling at his imagination and command of wordplay and imagery. A true master.
Do you think they buried him in one of these?
very good