Looking for The Long Lost Great American Novel?

In many years of reading and writing, I have never read a novel by a contemporary author and then gone out and purchased five other novels Of That same guy. And continued to be amazed, novel after novel. Cormac McCarthy is up there with Samuel Beckett as did unusual modern novelist. He dosen't give interviews, do books reviews, teach writing classes; He's isolated, serious, successfully creating of individual world no one ever dared dream of inventing, and where followers would get lost in his wasteland, just as with Beckett. And God does he have language. If "Art is reality seen through a unique perspective", then read this or any of his books. Other novelists seem to be playing it awfully safe Compared to him.