Re: Help an English lit noob out - need some good fiction
Cormac McCarthy. pretty much anything he has written, although his last two novels seem to have been written with film adaptation in mind. the Coen brothers directed a film based on "No Country For Old Men" which comes out this fall and is supposed to be quite good. That book and "The Road" are very different from his past books. Much less dense, with stylistic differences. Also, they are set in modern and post-apocolyptic periods which differ from his previous novels which were generally set in the 19th century or early 20th. His masterpiece is "Blood Meridian", I highly recommend it.
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