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No country for old men (Book)

 
Title:No country for old men
Author:McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
Publisher:2005
Brief description:A harrowing story of a war that society wages on itself, an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, and a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.
ISBN:9780330454537, 9780375406775, 0330440306, 0375406778
Subjects:American fiction - 20th century
Western stories
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Description (full):Llewlyn 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?'"No Country For Old Men" is a compelling, harrowing, disturbing, sad, endlessly surprising and resonant novel' - "Spectator". '"No Country For Old Men" is a severed head and shoulders over anything else written in America this year' - "Independent on Sunday". '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". 'A fast, powerful read, steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West' - "Financial Times".
Author info:Cormac McCarthy is the author of eight previous novels, and among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Nielsen review:"Profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered."
--"The" "Washington Post"
"Feels like a genuine diagnosis of the postmillennial malady, a scary illumination of the oncoming darkness."
--"Time"
"He is nothing less than our greatest living writer, and this is a novel that must be read and remembered."
--"Houston Chronicle"
"Riveting. . . . A harrowing, propulsive drama."
--"The New York Times"
"This is a monster of a book. . . . It will leave you panting and awestruck."
--Sam Shepard
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