No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy is a Vintage International Edition published by National Geographic Books on July 11, 2006. This novel unfolds along the Texas-Mexico border, where the landscape has shifted from rustlers to drug-runners, and small towns have become battlegrounds. The story follows Llewellyn Moss, who stumbles upon a truck filled with heroin and cash, igniting a violent chain reaction that even the weary Sheriff Bell struggles to manage.
Readers will encounter a narrative that intertwines crime and existential themes, as Moss attempts to evade relentless pursuers, including a chilling figure who decides fates with a coin toss. McCarthy’s work delves into the complexities of morality and violence, reflecting both timeless and contemporary issues. This edition spans 320 pages and is presented in English, offering a rich exploration of the darker aspects of human nature within a gripping storyline.
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From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of 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 new novel, The Passenger, coming October ’22.
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