Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, is known for the dark and often merciless stories depicted in any of the dozen novels he wrote throughout his life. McCarthy’s inimitable ...

Cormac McCarthy didn't just write bleak books — he bottled cataclysms on the page. ... The Crossing is the sequel to All the Pretty Horses, and it's more philosophical than its predecessor.

If this makes McCarthy’s work sound bleak, well … it often was. His early works, ending with 1979’s “Suttree,” are Faulknerian fables of his birth territory of Appalachia.

Cormac McCarthy, lone wolf among the last of the literary giants The American novelist, who died Tuesday at 89, took grand stylistic chances that few others could — or would — dare June 14 ...

McCarthy applied a stark, merciless vision to his stories of misfits and the apocalypse. Here’s where to start with his work. By The New York Times Books Staff Cormac McCarthy, who died on ...

Cormac McCarthy, whose starkly themed ... This was the first in a trio known as the Border Trilogy, filled out by “The Crossing” in 1994 and “Cities of the Plain” in 1998.

Cormac McCarthy attends the premiere of "The Road" at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas in Manhattan on Nov. 16, 2009. Credit: ... "The Crossing" (1994) "Cities of the Plain" (1998) ...

T he Passenger and Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy’s new novels, are his first in many years in which no horses are harmed and no humans scalped, shot, eaten, or brained with farm equipment.But ...

Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer-Winning Author of ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country For Old Men,' Dead at 89 "For sixty years, ... The Crossing and Cities of the Plain. ...

Cormac McCarthy's seventh novel is also the second in the "Border Trilogy", The Crossing. In The Crossing , Billy Parham and ...

Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, is known for the dark and often merciless stories depicted in any of the dozen novels he wrote throughout his life. McCarthy’s inimitable ...