American novelist whose Blood Meridian is widely considered the greatest American novel of the second half of the 20th century — a meditation on violence, history, and the nature of evil without redemption.
Blood Meridian: the Judge is the embodiment of war as the ultimate human activity — a nihilistic western of absolute violence with no redemption. The Road: a post-apocalyptic parable of the father-son bond and the ember of goodness in total darkness. No Country for Old Men: Anton Chigurh as the incarnation of amoral force. The Orchard Keeper: his first novel, Appalachian, Faulknerian.
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