Cormac McCarthy (July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American novelist known for spare, often brutal prose and novels exploring violence, nature, and moral desolation.

Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Road; several works adapted for film (including No Country for Old Men).

DeBaser reviews praise McCarthy's stripped, powerful prose and his talent for rendering brutal landscapes and moral desolation. Recurring themes: survival, violence, bleak nature, and fragile compassion. Several reviews single out The Road, Blood Meridian and Suttree as major achievements.

For:Readers of literary fiction who appreciate spare, often brutal prose; fans of Westerns, post-apocalyptic and philosophical novels.

 “When we're all gone from here, only death will remain, and even it will have its days numbered. It will wander the street with nothing to do and no one to do it to. It will say: Where did everyone go? That's how it will be”

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 “Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of the card. The whole universe for such a player is that moment’s hesitation that tells him whether it is to be his opponent or that he shall die by the hand of the other. What more certain validation of a man’s worth could there be? The move to the extreme condition of the game lays bare the notion of fate. The selection of one man over another is absolute and irrevocable, and it is the obtuse among us that choose a decision invested so utterly, sans design or agent of understanding, or of purpose. In such a game the lost man is removed from existential being. This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the test of one’s will and the will of another within that will which is forced to come to terms because they are tied together. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is God.”

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 one must never, even in the hardest moments, give up hope, if not for ourselves, for the people beside us, who will always carry a part of us and what we wanted to give them within themselves.

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