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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.

The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark...

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.

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...

A sunken jet, a missing body, and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all understanding. From the bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtakingly dark novel from Cormac McCarthy, the legendary author of No Country for Old Men and...

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...

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.

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...

In una capanna al limitare del bosco, la giovane Rinthy dà alla luce un bambino. Il padre del bimbo e fratello di Rinthy, si libera del neonato abbandonandolo in riva al fiume. Certa che il figlio sia vivo, la donna parte alla sua ricerca per le strade di una terra desolata. Il padre, a sua volta, rincorre la sorella per le stesse strade, mosso da un'uguale certezza di ritrovarla. Al loro girovagare si intreccia quello di una malvagia «trinità» che sfiora via via le misere esistenze di una serie di personaggi tingendole di sangue.

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...

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.

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.

Um marco da literatura norte-americana, Meridiano de sangue é um épico inesquecível e brutal sobre o Oeste americano — um lugar violento e imprevisível, onde real e imaginário se fundem em uma história com dimensões apocalípticas. Meridiano de sangue é um romance épico. Nele...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. "The richest and strongest work of...

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...

DIE STILLE VOR DEM SCHUSS. Bei einem morgendlichen Ausflug in die texanische Wüste findet Hobbyjäger Llewellyn Moss eine gespenstische Szenerie vor: mehrere Leichen, eine Pick-up-Ladefläche voller Heroin und am Ende einer Blutspur einen Koffer mit 2,4 Millionen Dollar. Er behält das Geld – sein erster Fehler. Der zweite: In der Nacht kehrt er zum Tatort zurück, um seine Spuren zu verwischen. So gerät er ins Visier des eiskalten Killers Chigurh. Und genau wie der alte Sheriff Bell ist Moss dieser Form von Grauen und Gewalt nicht gewachsen.

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.

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.

Už sarkastický název uvádí do atmosféry tohoto netradičního detektivního příběhu ve stylu „noir“ z texasko-mexické hranice. V průběhu děje se plní šerifovými meditacemi na téma láska, krev a občanská povinnost. Je to audiokniha, která vás vtáhne a už nepustí… Llewelyn Moss vyrazí na lov a během něj objeví, místo, kde se zvrtla předávka drog. Najde několik mrtvých mužů a v kabele pohádkovou hotovost. Od této chvíle ho i s jeho manželkou Carlou Jean, která se odjede skrýt ke své matce, začne pronásledovat ten, jemuž peníze patřily, zločinec Anton Chigurh.

16 år efter Pulitzer-vinderen "Vejen" er en af USA’s største nulevende forfatter, Cormac McCarthy, tilbage med "Passageren" og "Stella Maris": To mørke, betagende romaner om synd, vanvid, moral og videnskab. Begge bøger udkommer på dansk 4. maj 2023. Wisconsin, 1972: Alicia Western indlægger sig selv på et psykiatrisk hospital. Tyve år gammel og uden anden bagage end en pose fyldt med hundreddollarsedler. Alicia er et matematisk geni og læser sin ph.d. på University of Chicago, men bliver diagnosticeret med paranoid skizofreni.