The Road – Interesting Literature

The life and work of novelist Cormac McCarthy summarised in five interesting bits of trivia

1. He has been hailed as one of the four most important novelists of his age. Influential literary critic Harold Bloom, author of The Western Canon, has declared that McCarthy is one of the four major novelists of his time, the others being White Noise author Don DeLillo, Gravity’s Rainbow author Thomas Pynchon, and Portnoy’s Complaint author Philip Roth. Bloom has even said that McCarthy’s 1985 novel Blood Meridian is the ‘best single book since Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying‘. (We have more about William Faulkner here.)