NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

McCarthy, Cormac

ISBN 10: 1890885193 / ISBN 13: 9781890885199

Published by B. E. Trice, New Orleans, 2005

About this Item

Signed limited edition of this neo-Western thriller, one of McCarthy's most famous works and the basis for an Oscar-winning film. Known for his "brutal and spare" narratives, Cormac McCarthy has been called "one of the greatest living novelists" (Cowley, THE GUARDIAN). NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is a major work of the McCarthy canon, exploring fate and futility in the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong in rural west Texas. A MacArthur Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, and National Book Award-winner, McCarthy's reputation has been extended further with the success of the Coen brothers' Hollywood adaptation of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, which won four Academy Awards including Best Picture. 8.75'' x 5.5''. Original quarter burgundy leather with marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Brown endpapers. 312 pages. Signed by McCarthy and numbered 42 (of 325) to colophon. In original burgundy cloth slipcase. A sharp copy.

Seller Inventory # 50481

Bibliographic Details

• Title: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
• Publisher: B. E. Trice, New Orleans
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1890885193
• ISBN 13: 9781890885199
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Lit

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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 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 one of America’s most honored writers. He has won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent novel, The Road, received the Pulitzer Prize.