He won a Pulitzer for 'The Road,' had his first best-seller with 'All the Pretty Horses' and wrote the screenplay for Ridley Scott's 'The Counselor.'
, a haunting book about the journey of a father and his son though a desolate world.for the only on-camera interview of his career after she put the spotlight on “Well, I don’t think [promotion is] good for your head,” McCarthyWinfrey. “If you spend a lot of time thinking about how to write a book, you shouldn’t be talking about it, you probably should be doing it. That’s my feeling.”
McCarthy went on to describe his distinctive writing style. “Simple, declarative sentences,” he said. “I believe in periods, capitals and the occasional comma. That’s it.” On rare occasions, McCarthy would acquiesce to a colon. Semicolons were a waste, in his opinion, and he never felt the need to use quote marks when his characters spoke.featuring one of his more infamous characters: the ruthless hitman Anton Chigurh, played by Bardem in the movie.
He ran cold water over his wrists until they stopped bleeding and he tore strips from a hand towel with his teeth and wrapped his wrists and went back into the office. He sat on the desk and fastened the toweling with tape from a dispenser, studying the dead man gaping up from the floor. When he was done he got the deputy’s wallet out of his pocket and took the money and put it in the pocket of his shirt and dropped the wallet to the floor.
On the interstate he picked out a late model Ford sedan with a single driver and turned on the lights and hit the siren briefly. The car pulled onto the shoulder. Chigurh pulled in behind him and shut off the engine and slung the tank across his shoulder and stepped out. The man was watching him in the rearview mirror as he walked up. The man opened the door and stepped out. What’s this about? he said. The man stepped away from the vehicle.
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