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.

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 ...

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.

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, 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 ...

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) ...

FILE - Author Cormac McCarthy attends the premiere of "The Road" in New York on Nov. 16, 2009. McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from ...

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 his brother Boyd go on a series of adventures near their homestead in ...

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 ...