No Country for Old Men
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4.2
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Cormac McCarthy
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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Author
Cormac McCarthy
Pages
320
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2007-11-29
ISBN
0307390535 9780307390530
Ratings
Google: 4
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"(Includes spoiler) I tried really hard to like this book and to finish it. Read it 75%, began skimming, then finally decided I was done wasting my time. For me… this was hard to follow; who was being discussed changed in an instant as did the story telling… one minute you’re in a motel with Llewellyn and the very next you’re in the morgue identifying his dead body… with no story about what happened. There were plenty of murders detailed in the book, but not the one the book got you invested in. "
""when he rode past I seen he was carryin fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there."
Some good metaphors and polysyndeton are all I ask for from Mccarthy. This one kinda read like a screenplay for most of it, but I love the ending quote above regardless.
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