No Country for Old Men
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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
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Publisher Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 50 BEST THRILLERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road, Blood Meridian, and All the Pretty Horses, this is the “profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered” novel (The Washington Post) that inspired the Academy Award®–winning film.
“A narrative that rips along like hell on wheels [on] a stage as big as Texas.”—The New York Times Book Review
The setting is the Texas–Mexico border. 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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Meet one of the most evil, disturbing, and undeniably compelling villains in literary history. Set along the Texas-Mexico border at the dawn of the 1980s, Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel is an absolute triumph. When a hunter stumbles across the abandoned payout from a drug runner’s deal gone violently wrong, one impulsive decision unleashes a terrifying chain of events. Seamlessly drawing on genres ranging from Westerns to hardboiled mysteries, No Country for Old Men is deliciously bleak and can’t-stop-reading intense. McCarthy’s austere writing style is as flat as the west Texas landscape, creating maximum impact with the barest minimum of words. Just when you think you know how the story will play out, there’s another shocking turn around the corner. Yes, it’s a gripping crime novel of the highest order, but if you look beneath the surface, you’ll find a deeper meditation on the cruel, unpredictable nature of life and death.
Customer Reviews
Gripping
This book sucked me in and grabbed me until it was over. I found myself hoping for more when I reached the end. McCarthy has a way with words that simultaneously complex and irresistibly simple. While it is not quite the haunting tale that it Blood Meridian, it is still a fantastic read.
Read the Book
Skip the movie and read the book. Excellent storytelling by a gifted writer.
Good read!
Now I will watch the movie.