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Paperback No Country for Old Men (Vintage International) Book

ISBN: 0307387135

ISBN13: 9780307387134

No Country for Old Men

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From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the 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. This description may be from another edition of this product.
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Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy on July 20, 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island) is the American author of twelve novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road, No Country for Old Men, and All the Pretty Horses. He received the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circl... Learn More About This Author

Customer Reviews

19 customer ratings | 7 reviews

Rated 4 stars
Movie or book? Or which first?

While I have seen the movie many times before reading, it's hard to determine what would have been better first. The faces to the names allowed me to have better immersion but also because the movie does stick to most of the books, not much was a surprise or had me enticed as much as never having experienced the story at all. Good read and not that difficult makes this a should read for anyone with the question, what would...

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Rated 5 stars
A must-read if you’ve watched the movie!

I found myself needing to read McCarthy’s book after seeing the movie. This book will not disappoint. Cormac McCarthy has a unique writing style that pulls you in. Being a huge fan of the movie, this book will actually have you coming away with a deeper knowledge of the unique characters. One thing I will recommend; be sure to read the italicized excerpts. If you read them carefully, you’ll not reap more information, but you’ll...

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Rated 5 stars
Virtue Takes a Holiday

This is an extraordinarily complex and nuanced novel masquerading as a shoot 'em up. Like other of McCarthy's stories, the novel is propelled by the reflexively violent nature of men operating outside social constraints. The particular millieu for this story is the drug trade, depicted as an evil force of nature that makes claims on the lives of all the characters. The dynamics of the story lead toward entropy. The central...

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Rated 5 stars
Holy Cats!

If you like your conflicts fully resolved, you may want to look elsewhere; if you're bothered by unconventional punctuation, you may be irritated by this book; if you despise jump cuts and point of view shifts, you may find yourself rereading sections of this book to catch your bearings. Otherwise, however, you may find this one of the most original books you've read in years. The story begins when Llewelyn Moss stumbles...

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Rated 5 stars
The master best novel yet!

I have read the "Border Trilogy," and "All the Pretty Horses" was my favorite, especially the horse breaking scenes and the scenes set in the Mexican Prison. BUT a lot of the time McCarthy leaves me scratching my head. Sometimes his stories go wandering off on tangents I just don't get (I sometimes fear I am just not intelligent enough to understand his point). This book however is more direct and simply laid out. A kind...

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Published by Ashly Moore Sheldon • June 22, 2023

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