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No Country for Old Men
a chilling literary Western exploring violence and morality on the bloody frontier
2010
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A savage tale of violence and morality in the American West, Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men follows a Vietnam veteran's dark path after stumbling upon a drug deal gone wrong.Adapted for the screen by the Coen Brothers (Fargo, True Grit), winner of four Academy Awards (including Best Picture).'A Western thriller with a racy plot and punchy dialogue' – The Times
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Blood Meridian
a brutal historical Western novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author
2015
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**Brutally violent, Blood Meridian is the story of a teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert border land.It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers – his magnum opus.**‘Imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided by Satan, wrote a western’ – The TimesThrough the hostile...
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The Road
a post-apocalyptic classic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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- Picador Collection
2010
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**One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for FictionA post-apocalyptic classic set in a burned-out America. A father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there . . .The Road is a masterpiece of American fiction from Cormac McCarthy.**The landscape is destroyed. Nothing moves save the ash on the wind. Cruel, lawless ...
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The Passenger
A dark, literary thriller from the legendary author of No Country for Old Men and The Road
2022
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A sunken jet. A missing body. A salvage diver entangled in a chilling conspiracy. From the bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtakingly dark novel from Cormac McCarthy, the legendary author of No Country for Old Men and The Road.‘A gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller . . . What a glorious sunset song’ – The Guardian1980, Mis...
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- Vintage International
2010
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From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • In this taut, chilling story,Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance."Like the novelists he admires-Melville, D...
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- The Passenger Series
2022
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**NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The first of a two-volume masterpiece, The Passenger series, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road • The story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"Blends the rowdy humor of some of McCarthy’s early novels with the parched tone of his mo...
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All the Pretty Horses
Border Trilogy 1 (National Book Award Winner)
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- Vintage International
2010
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The RoadAll the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyl...
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The Road
Pulitzer Prize Winner
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- Vintage International
2007
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive that “only adds to McCarthy’s stature as a living master. It’s gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle).One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the CenturyA father and his son walk alone through burned Americ...
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Blood Meridian
Or the Evening Redness in the West
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- Vintage International
2010
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One of The Atlantic’s “Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years,” now with a new foreword by Marlon JamesWidely considered one of the finest novels by a living writer, Blood Meridian is an epic tale of the violence and corruption that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the “Wild West.” Its wounded hero, the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean, must confront the...
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Suttree
A semi-autobiographical, darkly funny novel from the author of The Road
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- Picador Collection
2010
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**In this semi-autobiographical work, a man abandons his life of privilege to live among eccentrics, criminals and the impoverished of Knoxville. Suttree is a humorous, compelling tapestry of life on the edge from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road and Blood Meridian.'Suttree marks McCarthy's closest approach to autobiography and is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of his books' – Stanley Booth, author of The True Adventures of the Rolli...
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The Crossing
Book 2 of The Border Trilogy
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- Vintage International
2010
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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning *Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–*winning novel The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth.In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures...
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Cities of the Plain
an epic Western and the devastating conclusion to the Border Trilogy
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- Border Trilogy
2010
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**Two men marked by boyhood adventures now stand together, forced to confront a country changing beyond recognition. Cities of the Plain brings Cormac McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy to its brutal, inevitable conclusion.'The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' – Guardian**1952, New Mexico. John Grady Cole, last seen in All the Pretty Horses, works as a ranch hands alongside Billy Parnham, of The Crossing. These are the dying...
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