Cormac McCarthy

Biography

Cormac McCarthy (1933 – 2023), winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, was an acknowledged master of brutal American realism. His novels, such as Suttree (Random House, 1979), Blood Meridian (Random House, 1984), and All the Pretty Horses (Knopf, 1992), are unflinching masterpieces of the American South and Southwest. His novel The Road (Knopf, 2006) won the Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into a film, as was No Country for Old Men (Knopf, 2005), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2008.

See Work

FICTION / Summer 2005

Agua

By Cormac McCarthy

he rifle would shoot half minute of angle groups. Five inch groups at one thousand yards. The spot he’d picked to shoot from lay just below a long talus of lava scree and it would put him well within that distance. Except that it would take...