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No Country for Old Men

By Cormac McCarthy
Series: Vintage International
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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy is set along the Texas-Mexico border in contemporary times, where the drug trade has replaced rustling and small towns have become dangerous zones. The story follows Llewellyn Moss, a man who discovers a truck wreck surrounded by dead bodies, containing a stash of heroin and two million dollars. After taking the money, Moss becomes the target of relentless pursuit, including from a cold-blooded assassin who decides lives by a coin toss. Meanwhile, Sheriff Bell, an ageing and disillusioned lawman, struggles to contain the ensuing violence. The novel explores themes both timeless and timely, offering a profound and harrowing journey into the nature of violence and fate.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This novel is ideal for readers who appreciate gritty crime fiction intertwined with deep philosophical themes, fans of Cormac McCarthy's works, and those interested in stark, poetic storytelling that reflects on morality and the changing American West.

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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.

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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, the 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.

Series: Vintage International

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ISBN: 9780375706677

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 July 2006

Country: United States

Imprint: Random House Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 202.0mm

Weight: 227g

Pages: 320

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Cormac McCarthy Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Series: Vintage International

About the Author

The novels of the American writer, CORMAC MCCARTHY, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men—the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. He died in 2023.

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