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Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy; July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic genres.

McCarthy's fifth novel, Blood Meridian (1985), was on Time magazine's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language books published since 1923.

For All the Pretty Horses (1992), he won both the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. 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. All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and Child of God have also been adapted as motion pictures, while Outer Dark was turned into a 15-minute short.

McCarthy won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road (2006). In 2010, The Times ranked The Road first on its list of the 100 best fiction and non-fiction books of the past 10 years. Literary critic Harold Bloom named McCarthy as one of the four major American novelists of his time, alongside Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth, and called Blood Meridian "the greatest single book since Faulkner's As I Lay Dying".

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I en uhyggelig troværdig vision af vores mulige fremtid kæmper en far og hans søn for at overleve i et USA, som ligger totalt øde hen efter 'den store katastrofe'. Der er intet tilbage af civilisationen, og de to vandrer planløst af sted, kun holdt oppe af omsorgen og hengivenheden for hinanden.

"Vejen er en mesters værk, en bog, der hæver sig langt over det specifikt amerikanske og taler til læsere i hele verden. Den inviterer til at forstå verden i store begreber som godt og ondt, dom og nåde, og kalder på en genlæsning, så snart den er til ende." – Michael Bach Henriksen, Kristeligt Dagblad

"... en ultimativ kærlighedsroman om kærligheden mellem forældre og børn. En bevægende meditation over selve det at være ophav til et barn i en verden, hvor meget er forfærdeligt og forfærdeligt svært at forklare." – Kim Skotte, Politiken

"Illumineret af en ekstraordinær ømhed ... Simpel og dog mystisk, simultant kryptisk og krystal klar." – The New York Times

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Udgivelsesdato22 mar. 2011
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