A Brief Look At Cormac Mccarthy

The legendary author Cormac McCarthy once said, “I don’t know why I started writing, I don’t know why anybody does it. Maybe they’re bored, or failures at something else.” Cormac doesn’t seem to know where and when he got started writing, but many people are very grateful for everything he had done and created in his very popular writings. Cormac McCarthy is the voice of his generation because of his ability to be able to have many books in many different genres and be successful in every genre he writes in, the way he lives and his lifestyle, and the countless number of life experiences he has had thus far. Every award he has received has praised him in his way of writing in the world of literature today. Cormac’s quote “You are either born
The first novel Cormac published was, The Orchard Keeper, he published this in 1965. This book is about a boy and his father who were killed by an outlaw. While publishing this book Cormac met Albert Erskine. Albert would become Cormac’s editor for the next twenty years. Albert was also the editor for Faulkner. After Cormac published this novel he received the Traveling Fellowship Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. These factors emphasize the fact that he had an amazing beginning to his writing career and contributes to the fact that he in the voice of his generation. After receiving this award Cormac decided to travel to Ireland, and on the ship on his way he met Anne DeLisle. They began a courtship and one year after meeting they decided to get married in
This was a western themed novel that had great success and was made into a successful movie. The movie won seven Academy Awards and also won over seventy-five other film awards across the world. (Wikipedia) The Road was the next book he would go on to publish. This book is a very eye-opening and dark story. This novel is what many consider to be Cormac’s best novel. The Road was published in 2006, this book is about a boy and his father who find themselves on a road through a post-apocalyptic world. This is considered to be Cormac’s most powerful novel. This story shows the bond and love of a father and a son who go through everything together, whether it be killing someone for the other’s safety or running from people to not get killed and eaten by them. It explores every idea you could imagine that would be possible in an apocalyptic environment. This novel shows there is nothing this father would not do to save his son from what is going on around them. It explores the love that a father has for his son and to what extent he will go to protect him, and there are no limits to what you would do for someone you love. The quote from the book The Road, “You have my whole heart. You always did,” just explains how much love this father has for his son in the novel. This novel just gives us even more evidence to how Cormac is an amazing writer and is the voice of his