Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr., July 20, 1933) is an American writer who has written twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays and three short stories, spanning the Western and post-apocalyptic genres. He is known for his graphic depictions of violence and his unique writing style, recognizable by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution.

Cormac McCarthy, né Charles McCarthy le 20 juillet 1933 à Providence dans le Rhode Island, est un écrivain américain.Auteur de dix romans, dont une trilogie, il travaille occasionnellement comme scénariste pour le cinéma et la télévision. Cormac McCarthy connaît un large succès avec De si jolis chevaux (1992), pour lequel il reçoit le National Book Award et le National Book …

Cormac McCarthy (Providence, Rhode Island, 20 de julio de 1933) es un escritor estadounidense ganador del Premio Pulitzer de ficción por La carretera (2006) y del National Book Award por Todos los hermosos caballos (1992).. El crítico literario Harold Bloom le ha distinguido como uno de los cuatro mayores novelistas norteamericanos de su tiempo, junto a …

Cormac McCarthy, all'anagrafe Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. (Providence, 20 luglio 1933), è uno scrittore, drammaturgo e sceneggiatore statunitense Biografia. Figlio di un avvocato di successo e terzo di sei figli, McCarthy nacque a Providence, nel Rhode Island, il 20 luglio 1933. Si ...

The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy.The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has …

La Route (titre original anglais : The Road) est un roman post-apocalyptique de Cormac McCarthy publié en 2006 aux États-Unis chez l'éditeur New Yorkais Alfred A. Knopf.Il a été publié en France en 2008 par les éditions de l'Olivier traduit de l'anglais par François Hirsch. Accueilli avec enthousiasme par le public et la critique, ce roman a été récompensé par le prix Pulitzer …

No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western crime thriller film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel of the same name. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, the film is set in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. The film revisits the themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance that the Coen …

MacCarthy (Irish: Mac Cárthaigh), also spelled Macarthy, McCarthy or McCarty, is an Irish clan originating from Munster, an area they ruled during the Middle Ages.It was divided into several great branches; the MacCarthy Reagh, MacCarthy of Muskerry, and MacCarthy of Duhallow dynasties were the three most important of these.. Their name, meaning "son of Cárthach" …

Cormac is a masculine given name in the Irish and English languages. The name is ancient in the Irish language and is also seen in the rendered Old Norse as Kormákr.. Mac is Irish for "son", and can be used as either a prefix or a suffix. The derivation of "cor" is not so clear. The most popular speculation is that it is from "corb," the old Irish for wheel, perhaps designating someone who ...

Suttree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Cormac McCarthy, published in 1979.Set in Knoxville, Tennessee, over a four-year period starting in 1950, the novel follows Cornelius Suttree, who has repudiated his former life of privilege to become a fisherman on the Tennessee River.The novel has a fragmented structure with many flashbacks and shifts in grammatical …