RIP Cormac McCarthy - Celebrating the Legacy of America's Great Novelist

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In summary, Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian is considered to be one of the greatest American novels, and is often compared to the works of Melville and Faulkner. It is seen as a powerful and memorable book, and is considered to be the ultimate Western novel.
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/13/cormac-mccarthy-dead-novelist

His Blood Meridian regularly makes lists of greatest american novels

https://lithub.com/harold-bloom-on-cormac-mccarthy-true-heir-to-melville-and-faulkner/

Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985) seems to me the authentic American apocalyptic novel, more relevant now than when it was written. The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and of Faulkner. I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable as Blood Meridian, much as I appreciate his Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, and Mason & Dixon. McCarthy himself has not matched Blood Meridian, but it is the ultimate Western, not to be surpassed.
 
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