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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 · A thriller novel set in the Texas-Mexico border, where a good old boy finds a truck full of heroin and cash and becomes a target of a ruthless killer. Read ratings, reviews, quotes, and more on Goodreads, the world's largest community for readers.
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Jul 11, 2006 · No Country for Old Men. Paperback – July 11, 2006. 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.
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A review and analysis of the 2005 novel by Cormac McCarthy, a neo-noir thriller about a man pursued by a psychopathic killer for a suitcase of drug money. Learn about the themes, characters, quotes, historical context, and similar books of this dark and gritty masterpiece.
Jul 25, 2005 · Here, the story’s set in 1980 in southern Texas near the Mexican border, where aging Sheriff Bell, a decorated WWII veteran, broods heroically over the territory he’s sworn to protect, while—in a superb, sorrowful monologue—acknowledging the omnipresence of ineradicable evil all around him.
- Kirkus Reviews
Learn about the plot, themes, and characters of Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men, a thriller about a drug deal, a hitman, and a sheriff. Find out how the novel explores the themes of evil, change, and justice through the monologues of Sheriff Bell.
About No Country for Old Men. 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.
