I’d seen No Country for Old Men before and even read the first few pages, but I’d never purchased it because it always seemed a little too violent and intense for my tastes. Somehow these new books always get catapulted to the top of my “To Be Read” list. No Country for Old Men is a triumph.Ĭustomers who bought this item also bought.I have this little tradition of going to the bookstore on my last day of work to buy summer reading books that I don’t need. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law-in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell-can contain.As Moss tries to evade his pursuers-in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives-McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning's headlines. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones.
In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.3" W x 7.92" (0.52 lbs) 320 pagesįeatures: Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: In this modern-day Western-his first novel since "Cities of the Plain" completed his acclaimed, bestselling Border Trilogy-McCarthy pens a harrowing story of a war that society wages on itself, an enduring meditation of the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies.Ĭlick for more in this series: Vintage International Contributor(s): McCarthy, Cormac (Author)
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