He was right.Ĭornelius Suttree drifts through rusted rail yards, dive bars and diners. I took his advice, went to the Strand on my way to the subway. I confessed: for all my raving about McCarthy, and echoes I found in Junger’s work, I had not read Suttree. ![]() Suttree takes place in Knoxville in fucking nothingness, and it’s the most brilliant writing. Nor was Suttree like The Road, “apocalyptic and whatever, all big dramatic stuff. It didn’t show the reader the 1840s Texas of Blood Meridian, McCarthy’s “stunning” 1985 western, Junger said. Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm, War and other classics of modern reportage, once told me Suttree was McCarthy’s “most brilliant novel, because it’s just his most mundane”. But in Stella Maris there were flashes of his classic style too, of his mordant wit and stark description. Reviewers wondered at McCarthy’s attempt to write a female lead McCarthy wrote about men, mostly. The paired novels met with mixed reactions, particularly the austere Stella Maris, a book-length conversation between a suicidal mathematical prodigy and her therapist. Then, after a 16-year long silence, McCarthy’s final books arrived in 2022: The Passenger and Stella Maris. Both became hit films, made by the Coen brothers and John Hillcoat respectively. No Country for Old Men (2005) and The Road (2006) sold well and won awards too, the latter landing a Pulitzer. ![]() The book was a bestselling award-winner and it was followed by The Crossing (1994) and Cities of the Plain (1998), to form The Border Trilogy. He was nearly 60 when, in 1992, his sixth novel, All the Pretty Horses, brought him mainstream attention. C ormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday aged 89, achieved fame relatively late.
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