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Book SynopsisCormac 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.
Trade ReviewA darkly shining work . . . executed with consummate skill and much subtlety - the effect is magnificent -- John Banville, author of
The Sea * Observer *
An exhilarating, exceptional novel * Spectator *
All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece. * Financial Times *
One of the greatest American novels of this or any time * Guardian *
[A] totalizing reality, where meditation and resistance are two components of one reality, a destiny of wandering the borderlands of the U.S. and Mexico in the postwar twentieth century -- Rachel Kushner, author of
The Mars Room
