Cormac McCarthy has died aged 89. The author of No Country For Old Men, The Road, Blood Meridian and many more, he was acclaimed as one of the world's finest writers. Stephen King wrote on Twitter that McCarthy was "maybe the greatest American novelist of my time".
McCarthy's books could be psychedelic, apocalyptic, gothic, horrific and very heavy. Heavy in their subject matter, heavy in tone. Like a lot of the music he inspired, they could be unrelenting, unforgiving, with an unflinching eye for human nature. His art was not escapist and it could be difficult – but it rewarded you in spades.
