Author: CORMAC MCCARTHY
Title: No Country For Old Men
Description: Picador. Paperback. Pp: 310. In 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.nOne day, 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.nAs 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.nNo Country for Old Men is a triumph. ISBN: 9781447201809. Cond./Kwaliteit: Ramsj.
Keywords: 9781447201809
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Title: No Country For Old Men
Description: Picador. Paperback. Pp: 310. In 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.nOne day, 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.nAs 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.nNo Country for Old Men is a triumph. ISBN: 9781447201809. Cond./Kwaliteit: Ramsj.
Keywords: 9781447201809
Price: EUR 7.95 = appr. US$ 8.64 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1530161
- Book number: 1530161
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