| No Country for Old Men Contributor(s): McCarthy, Cormac (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375706674 ISBN-13: 9780375706677 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2006 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Westerns - General - Fiction | Sagas |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 610 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.3" W x 7.92" (0.52 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Chronological Period - 1980's - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. 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. No Country for Old Men is a triumph. |