Set along the familiar bloody frontier of the Border Trilogy, No Country for Old Men portrays a time when drug agents and hit men rule the land. Vivid, thrilling and visceral.
Vivid, thrilling and visceral, No Country For Old Men is set along the familiar bloody frontier of the American South, portraying a time when drug agents and hit men ruled the land . . .
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Set along the familiar bloody frontier of the Border Trilogy, No Country for Old Men portrays a time when drug agents and hit men rule the land. Vivid, thrilling and visceral.
Vivid, thrilling and visceral, No Country For Old Men is set along the familiar bloody frontier of the American South, portraying a time when drug agents and hit men ruled the land . . .
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Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, No Country For Old Men is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road.Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?This edition is part of the Picador Collection, a new list of the best in contemporary literature published in Picador's 50th Anniversary year. McCarthy's eagerly anticipated new novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris, will be published by Picador in October 2022.
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“No Country for Old Men is a severed head and shoulders over anything else written in America this year.”
No Country for Old Men is a compelling, harrowing, disturbing, sad, endlessly surprising and resonant novel. -- Robert Edric Spectator
No Country for Old Men is a severed head and shoulders over anything else written in America this year. Independent on Sunday
A fast, powerful read, steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West. Financial Times
A Western thriller with a racy plot and punchy dialogue, perfect for a lazy Sunday. The Times
[An] utterly absorbing, chilling tale . . . One of the most sinister characters in modern American fiction. Herald
It's hard to think of a contemporary writer more worth reading. Independent
About the Author
Cormac McCarthy is one of the most enigmatic and reclusive superstars of the modern literary world. Living and writing from El Paso, Texas, he has shunned all requests for interviews, appearances at bookshops or literary festivals.Nonetheless, he remains one of the most admired writers of the last fifty years. His eight novels have received extraordinary reviews, being hailed as masterpieces of American literature. He has won the American National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the first book of The Border Trilogy.Cormac McCarthy is the author of twelve novels and a play. All his novels are available in Picador editions. He died in June 2023.
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