No Country for Old Men

McCarthy, Cormac - RARE US PROOF

ISBN 10: 0375406778 / ISBN 13: 9780375406775

Published by Knopf New York, 2005

About this Item

True first world printing of this stunning novel. This is the rare proof copy with the narrow black front flap. It looks like it has been read but with care. Not showing any spine cracks, but with usage demonstrated at the top right of the cover. This is a tiny flaw. No names, no underlinings, no annotations. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # ABE-3638405967

Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Country for Old Men
• Publisher: Knopf New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375406778
• ISBN 13: 9780375406775
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Special Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy.

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim’s burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes how desperately Moss and his young wife need protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex–Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches up and down and across the border, each participant seemingly determined to answer what one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

A harrowing story of a war that society is waging on itself, and an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, No Country for Old Men is a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.

About the Author

Cormac McCarthy is the author of eight previous novels, and among his honors are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.