Books By Cormac McCarthy

Around 16 years after his bestseller “The Road“, US author Cormac McCarthy is publishing two new novels this year.

Cormac Mccarthy the passenger 2022

“The Passenger” should appear on October 25th, “Stella Maris” on November 22nd, announced the button publishing house. The two books, which are linked in terms of content, are about the story of the siblings Bobby and Alicia Western and are set eight years apart.

The German language translations are published by Rowohlt Verlag at the same time. “This double novel about the limits of human cognitive abilities is the literary and philosophical legacy of one of the greatest of American literature and an incomparable intellectual pleasure to read,” said Rowohlt publisher Nicola Bartels.

The 88-year-old, who is one of the most successful and important authors of his generation in the USA, has published around a dozen works to date – but not a novel since the bestseller “Die Straße” in 2006. Among other things, McCarthy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, many of his works have been filmed, including “No Country for Old Men“. Books By Cormac McCarthy.

Cormac Mccarthy Movies

• All the Pretty Horses (2000), directed by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz. Adapted from McCarthy’s 1992 novel.

• No Country for Old Men (2007), Academy Award-winning film directed by the Coen brothers and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem. Adapted from McCarthy’s 2005 novel.

• The Road (2009), directed by John Hillcoat and adapted by Joe Penhall. Starring Viggo Mortensen as the father, Kodi Smit-McPhee as the boy, Charlize Theron as the wife, and Robert Duvall as the old man. Adapted from McCarthy’s 2006 novel.

• Child of God (2013), co-written and directed by James Franco and premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival. Adapted from McCarthy’s 1973 novel.

Cormac Mccarthy author

Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy on July 20, 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island) is the American author of ten novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road, No Country for Old Men, and All the Pretty Horses. He received the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses and his novel Blood Meridian was included in Time magazine’s list of 100 best English-language books. He is also the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the MacArthurt Fellowship.

Cormac Mccarthy books

All the Pretty Horses (1992)
The Crossing (1994)
Cities of the Plain (1998)
The Orchard Keeper (1965)
Outer Dark (1968)
Child of God (1973)
Suttree (1979)
Blood Meridian (1985)
No Country for Old Men (2005)
The Road (2006)
The Stonemason (1994)
The Gardener’s Son (1996)
The Sunset Limited (2006)
The Counselor (2013)

Cormac Mccarthy quotes

1- “When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”

2- “It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures.”

3- “Your heart’s desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”

4- “You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”

5- “A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he don’t want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there.”