Cormac McCarthy

Two new novels the library has acquired, The Road and No Country for Old Men are written by Cormac McCarthy . Cormac McCarthy's real name is Charles McCarthy. He is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels and several plays and screenplays. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, which was recently made into a film. His 2005 novel, No Country for Old Men, also adapted as a film in 2007, won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He received a National Book Award in 1992 for All the Pretty Horses.

In addition to a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, The Road also won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006. It is a post-apocalyptic tale of a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed all civilization and, apparently, almost all life on earth.

No Country for Old Men is  a novel set along the United States–Mexico border in 1980, the story concerns an illicit drug deal gone wrong in a remote desert location. The title comes from the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats. I always recommend reading the book before seeing the movie!