Cormac McCarthy, novelist of a darker America, is dead at 89

 

 "McCarthy had in recent years been discussed as a potential winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. Critic Harold Bloom named him one of the four major American novelists of his time, alongside Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and Pynchon, and called McCarthy’s novel “Blood Meridian” (1985), a bad dream of a Western, “the greatest single book since William Faulkner’s ‘As I Lay Dying.’”

Saul Bellow noted McCarthy’s “absolutely overpowering use of language, his life-giving and death-dealing sentences.”

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Cormac McCarthy, novelist of a darker America, is dead at 89 | The Japan Times