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The
2007 Award |
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No Country for Old Men byCormac McCarthy
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ABOUT
THE BOOK |
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his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border,
setting of his 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. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Cormac McCarthy is the author of nine previous novels. Among his honors are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. |
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