Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres and has also written plays and screenplays. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, and his 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
His earlier Blood Meridian (1985) was among Time Magazine's poll of 100 best English-language books published between 1925 and 2005 and he placed joint runner-up for a similar title in a poll taken in 2006 by The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years. Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. He is frequently compared by modern reviewers to William Faulkner.
In 2009, Cormac McCarthy won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, a lifetime achievement award given by the PEN American Center.
A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
He turnd and looked at the boy.Maybe he understood for the first time that to the boy he was himself an alien.A being from a planet that no longer existed.The tales of which were suspect.He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he's lost wi...
评分看了《No Country for Old Man》后觉得不错,碰巧在亚马逊看到这个作者的另一部著作于是就买了。第一次看McCarthy的作品,这也是我看过最阴暗的一部作品。寒冷,饥饿,黑暗;迷茫,挣扎,绝望。看这样一本书,一定要把房间的空调关掉,至少调小。不然你会觉得冷…… 整个故事...
评分 评分 评分《路》是年近八旬的麦卡锡最新长篇,整个故事设置非凡。讲述核战争发生之后,一切都被摧毁,世界昏暗无光。大火燃烧造成的浮灰遮蔽了阳光,大地寒冷而幽暗,所有的森林都已化为灰烬,动物近乎灭绝;所剩无几的幸存者发生变异,堕入封建时代,甚或史前的野蛮状态。古老的异教带...
心灵上没被觉得太多人性的光辉而感动,尽管理性上能感觉到。死的人过去了,生的人坚持活下去。that's life.
评分这其实是我读的第一本英文原版小说……
评分现在大概明白之前血色子午线翻译为何那么烂。麦卡锡的书读原文感觉很棒,虽然很多单词都可能不认识,但总体上并不影响理解。不信上帝的人,这一次说we have to carry the fire.
评分可读性比较差,基本上没情节
评分读得让人着急的书,读了几十页,父子二人一直在走啊走,沿路所见皆是死亡与荒凉,情节单一结构散慢,真是挑战我的极限。读了简介才知,其以核弹爆发的末日为寓意来写,但无论如何,我还是不喜欢这样的风格。 凭了我打开之后不愿轻易中途而废的习惯,终于把它读完了。它真是一本关于走路的书,近300页,始终是这么一种姿态。
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