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No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, who had originally written the story as a screenplay. The story occurs in the vicinity of the Mexico–United States border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert back country.
Jul 19, 2005 · No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy who originally wrote the story as a screenplay. The story occurs in the vicinity of the United States–Mexico border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert back country.
Jul 11, 2006 · by Cormac McCarthy (Author) 4.6 11,825 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.
No Country for Old Men is set in 1980 in the barren West Texas landscape along the U.S./Mexico Border. The novel opens with a monologue delivered by Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, a WWII veteran and sheriff of Terrell County, in which he speaks about the evolving evil in America and his struggle to reconcile the changes he is witnessing in society.
No Country for Old Men. By Cormac McCarthy. Best Seller. Part of Vintage International. Category: Literary Fiction | Western Fiction. Paperback $18.00. Jul 11, 2006| ISBN 9780375706677. Buy. Ebook $12.99. Nov 29, 2007| ISBN 9780307390530. Buy. All Formats. +. Paperback$18.00. Jul 11, 2006 | ISBN 9780375706677. Add to Cart. Buy from Other Retailers:
Books. No Country for Old Men. Cormac McCarthy. Picador, 2010 - Fiction - 308 pages. "Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly...
Jul 11, 2006 · 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...
Savage violence and cruel morality reign in the backwater deserts of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, a tale of one man's dark opportunity – and the darker consequences that...
No Country for Old Men opens with a monologue by Sheriff Ed Tom Bell delivered after the main events of the narrative, in which he speaks about a brutal killer. Every chapter opens with Bell’s monologue and contains recollections and thoughts that pertain to the evil that Bell sees in the changing world.
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.
- Cormac McCarthy
