About the author
Cormac McCarthy was an American novelist and screenwriter whose work crossed the Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic traditions. His severe landscapes, violence, dark humor, and distinctive punctuation made his prose immediately recognizable.
McCarthy's prose is stripped to short exchanges and precise images of a ruined landscape. He withholds the cause of the disaster and the characters' names, keeping attention on the daily labor of sheltering, searching, and deciding whom to trust.
Where to start
Start with The Road. A father and son walk south through a burned world, carrying what little goodness remains.
