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. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
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Another great Cormac McCarthy book. It was a simple read which made me want to fly though it. For being a simple read it had a lot of deep messages. It confronts several issues about making life long decisions , the way our country had taken several wrong truns and even being a coward. I had seen the movie when it first came out and this was like reading the screenplay for most of the movie. I would recommend this to anyone who has seen the ...read more
The book was so much better than the movie! Cormac McCarthy's genius is in his ability to weave a complicated tale while remaining neutral, one of the few writers that can effectively waive personal prejudice. Absolutely fascinating.
The Writer Cormac McCarthy’s novel, No Country for Old Men was published in 2005. I read the book on the Kindle. I can see how the novel was made into a very good movie. The book is a fast-paced read. In 1980, a married man named Llewelyn Moss who is a welder stumbles on a drug deal that has become violent. Moss stumbles on a drug deal while hunting pronghorns which Moss calls antelopes (McCarthy 8-9). Moss serves in the American military during ...read more
I really enjoyed reading this book. It's no surprise that it's been made into a movie... it reads like a movie, you can picture the characters and the places quite vividly. I'm currently living in a country where I have not seen any trailers for this movie, or heard much about it, so my vision was my own. Of course, I have now looked at the web site and some of the characters were as I saw them, some not... but this is a great book!!
This book is basically: No Country for Old Men tells the story of a drug deal gone wrong and the ensuing cat-and-mouse drama, as three men crisscross each other's paths in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas.
I've had the movie for about a week and felt that I really needed to read the book first. Luckily, my friend had it and loaned it to me.
I've read The Road and was dumbfounded by the bleakness of it. No Country for Old Men dumbfounds me wi...read more
I've had the movie for about a week and felt that I really needed to read the book first. Luckily, my friend had it and loaned it to me.
I've read The Road and was dumbfounded by the bleakness of it. No Country for Old Men dumbfounds me wi...read more
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