Oprah selects Cormac McCarthy's `The Road'
Holy crap. This is the news I woke up to this morning. When I was 20 and working in advertising for The Easley Progress, this super hot red-headed editor handed me a copy of Suttree by Cormac McCarthy. "He is better than Faulker, " he said. "Read this." And since I needed conversation starters with my future husband, I read the novel... and that was how I discovered my favorite author of all time.
McCarthy does not give interviews to the press, in fact I've only seen two photos of him at all, but somehow Ms. Oprah talked him into to not only allowing his latest book, The Road, to be her book of the month, but he is also appearing on her show!
This is one of those Jesus moments you hear about in church isn't it.
(addition) Cormac McCarthy's The Road has been awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
McCarthy does not give interviews to the press, in fact I've only seen two photos of him at all, but somehow Ms. Oprah talked him into to not only allowing his latest book, The Road, to be her book of the month, but he is also appearing on her show!
This is one of those Jesus moments you hear about in church isn't it.
(addition) Cormac McCarthy's The Road has been awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
(Hmm, pick up copy of Sutree to have something to talk to KH about.)
-Ordering copy from Amazon.
:)
Posted by
Anonymous |
8:04 AM, March 29, 2007
Funny, I just finished The Road. One of the bleakest, horrible, existentialist books I've ever read. Definitely recommend it.
What's up?
Posted by
Jonas |
5:28 PM, March 30, 2007
In general, I'm not a huge fan of her book selections, but this one was great. His appearance on her show makes it even better.
Posted by
Joe |
7:30 AM, April 11, 2007
All, it is "Suttree" not "Sutree." And my personal favorite as well.
Posted by
Anonymous |
4:31 PM, May 02, 2007
ahhh you are correct. I gave my copy to a strange dinner guest in 2004 and forgot the extra "t". corrected.
Posted by
Kat Hunter |
5:19 PM, May 02, 2007