The novel harbours environmentalist sentiments and is in some ways reminiscent of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild. Much of it revolves around the journey of Billy Parham, who is trying to cross the US-Mexican border with a wolf. While the language soars as ever, McCarthy’s gaze here is much narrower. I think all McCarthy’s work is brilliant, but if you’re going to miss one out it should be the middle book of the Border Trilogy, The Crossing. Photograph: Dimension Films/2929 Productions/Allstar Michael K Williams in the 2009 film adaptation of The Road. The bleak, searing setting and relentlessly visceral language might seem like a journey into an impenetrable darkness, but this devastating, tender novel will speak straight to your heart. In the aftermath of an unexplained global catastrophe, an unnamed man and his son trek through the burnt landscape that was once America. While Blood Meridian is widely considered McCarthy’s greatest work, The Road has been recognised as a classic in its own right, particularly within post-apocalyptic fiction. Like much of McCarthy’s work, the novel is near-plotless, so its beauty lies in its acutely lyrical language, weaving a tapestry through landscape and characters. This is especially true in Blood Meridian, which is about a band of war veterans travelling through 19th-century America wreaking violence.
McCarthy is intent on revealing the violence inherent in nearly every human endeavour.
Matt Damon and Henry Thomas in the 2000 film adaptation of All the Pretty Horses.
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