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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 · The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. A good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back.
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.
Jul 11, 2006 · 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.
‘No Country for Old Men’ delves into the inevitability of fate, timeless moral inquiries, and the darkness within humanity through a straightforward narrative—a man pursued by drug dealers due to stolen money.
No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western crime thriller film written, directed, produced and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel of the same name. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, the film is set in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas.
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.
Jul 11, 2006 · 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...
Aug 3, 2009 · No Country for Old Men: From Novel to Film. Paperback – August 3, 2009. In 2005, Cormac McCarthy's novel, No Country for Old Men, was published to wide acclaim, and in 2007, Ethan and Joel Coen brought their adaptation of McCarthy's novel to the screen.
Jan 1, 2024 · Now that I've finally read "No Country For Old Men" (2005) I have read all of Cormac McCarthy's novels starting with "Blood Meridian" (1985). I don't plan to read his first four, set in the South.If this was a stand-alone novel that had not been made into an Oscar-winning film by the Coen Brothers, if it was the only novel the author had written, it might seem even greater than it does to me.
- HarvNotes, Cormac McCarthy
