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About Cormac McCarthy
American author
Cormac McCarthy was an American author known for fiction and drama that moved across the Western, post-apocalyptic, and Southern Gothic traditions. He is credited with twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories. His work is marked by stark violence, spare punctuation, and minimal use of quotation attributions. Across those books and scripts, he developed a voice that is lean, severe, and closely associated with the American literary canon.
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- “The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a reason.”Cormac McCarthy
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- “It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. ... War endures. As well ask men what they thin…”Cormac McCarthy
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Books by Cormac McCarthy
The Road
2007
All the Pretty Horses
1993
No Country for Old Men
2006
Blood Meridian
2015
The Crossing
2003