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Author of the National Book Award-winning All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier.

America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst this destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still, they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation.

John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend, Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilised.... A place where dreams are paid for in blood.

Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.

Sixteen-year-old Billy and his brother Boyd are fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. Billy captures the animal - but rather than kill it, sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to where it came from. Billy returns, finding himself and his world have irrevocably changed. His loss of innocence has come at a price, and once again the border beckons with its desolate beauty and cruel promise.

Quando bussa alla porta della clinica psichiatrica Stella Maris, con quarantamila dollari in contanti in una busta e poca carne addosso, Alicia Western ha vent'anni e altri due ricoveri alle spalle. Il compito che attende il dottor Cohen, che la prende in cura, è di quelli che possono far vacillare la fiducia di un medico nella propria professione.

Las autoridades mexicanas y del estado de Texas organizan una expedición paramilitar para acabar con el mayor número posible de indios. Es el Grupo Glanton, y tienen como líder espiritual al juez Holden, un ser violento y cruel. Nunca duerme, viola y asesina niños de ambos sexos y afirma que nunca morirá. Todo cambia cuando los carniceros de Glanton dejan de asesinar indios y empiezan a exterminar a los mexicanos que les pagan. Se instaura así la ley de la selva, el terreno moral donde la figura del juez se convierte en una especie de dios arbitrario.

Two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch, encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn incessantly in this story of friendships and passion to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.

A profound exploration of the nature of reality and the human mind, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road and No Country for Old Men. 'A drought-busting, brain-vexing double act’ – Guardian Alicia Western is the following: Twenty years old. A brilliant mathematician at the...

Nel cuore di una fredda notte del 1980, Bobby Western indossa la sua muta da sommozzatore e si tuffa nelle nere profondità della baia del Mississippi. Laggiú scorge il profilo di un aereo con nove corpi in cabina, gli occhi vuoti e le braccia protese verso un gelido abbraccio. Che fine ha fatto il fantomatico decimo passeggero? Quali oscure macchinazioni cela la sua scomparsa? Dolente viandante del mondo da sempre braccato dalla perdita e dalla colpa, ora Bobby deve tornare a fuggire, inseguendo la libertà e il ricordo di una donna per sempre irraggiungibile.

No discussion of great modern authors is complete without mention of Cormac McCarthy, whose rare and blazing talent makes his every work a true literary event. A grand addition to the American literary canon, Suttree introduces readers to Cornelius Suttree, a man who abandons his affluent family to live among a dissolute array of vagabonds along the Tennessee river.

Un uomo e un bambino viaggiano attraverso le rovine di un mondo ridotto a cenere in direzione dell'oceano, dove forse i raggi raffreddati di un sole ormai livido cederanno un po' di tepore e qualche barlume di vita. Trascinano con sé sulla strada tutto ciò che nel nuovo equilibrio delle cose ha ancora valore: un carrello del supermercato con quel po' di cibo che riescono a rimediare, un telo di plastica per ripararsi dalla pioggia gelida e una pistola con cui difendersi dalle bande di predoni che battono le strade decisi a sopravvivere a ogni costo.

Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution.

El cazador y veterano de Vietnam Llewelyn Moss descubre por casualidad la sangrienta escena de una carnicería entre narcos en algún lugar de la frontera entre Texas y México. Entre los cuerpos y los paquetes de heroína, descubre también algo más de dos millones de dólares. A partir de este momento comienza la violenta carrera de Moss por escapar de los que quieren darle caza.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER The first of a two-volume masterpiece, The Passenger series, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road The story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a...

In this taut, chilling audiobook, Lester Ballard - a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape - haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.

1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, zwanzig Jahre alt, lässt sich mit vierzigtausend Dollar in einer Plastiktüte und einem manifesten Todeswunsch in die Psychiatrie einweisen. Die Diagnose der genialen jungen Mathematikerin und virtuosen Violinistin: paranoide Schizophrenie. Über ihren Bruder Bobby spricht sie nicht.

Die Welt nach dem Ende der Welt. Die Welt nach der Welt gleicht der Welt vor der Schöpfung. "Die Erde war wüst und leer, und es war finster auf der Tiefe". (Moses 1,2) Ein Vater und sein Sohn wandern durch das verbrannte Amerika. Sie haben nichts als einen Revolver mit zwei Schuss Munition, ihre Kleider am Leib, eine Einkaufskarre mit der nötigsten Habe - und sie haben sich.

Two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch, encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn incessantly in this story of friendships and passion, to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.

One of America’s most celebrated novelists, Cormac McCarthy announced his towering presence on the literary stage with his first novel, The Orchard Keeper. Within the pages of this classic work, John Wesley Rattner, his uncle Ather, and bootlegger Marion Sylder find their lives dangerously entwined in pre-World War II Tennessee. There, the men’s tragedies and struggles are mirrored by the looming specter of industrialization.