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Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? '"No Country for Old Men" is a compelling, harrowing, disturbing, sad, endlessly surprising and resonant novel' Robert Edric, "Spectator" '"No Country for Old Men" is a severed head and shoulders over anything else written in America this year' "Independent on Sunday " 'A fast, powerful read, steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West' Lionel Shriver
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No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
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- Released
- 2007
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Cormac McCarthy
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 309
- ISBN10
- 0330454277
- ISBN13
- 9780330454278
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Thriller, USA, American Literature, Wild West, Adapted for Film, Drugs, Crime Rate, Mexico, Texas, Hitmen, Sheriffs
- First published
- 2005
- Original title
- No Country for Old Men
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? '"No Country for Old Men" is a compelling, harrowing, disturbing, sad, endlessly surprising and resonant novel' Robert Edric, "Spectator" '"No Country for Old Men" is a severed head and shoulders over anything else written in America this year' "Independent on Sunday " 'A fast, powerful read, steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West' Lionel Shriver