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No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
In Cormac McCarthy's ninth novel, his first in seven years, Llewellyn Moss, a hunter in McCarthy's Texas border country, happens upon $2 million in cash and a small fortune in heroin...... read more
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All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
The first volume in McCarthy's Border Trilogy, ALL THE PRETTY HORSES begins with the death of John Grady Cole's grandfather. John Grady, age 16, has lived with his grandfather for...... read more
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The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy
This second volume of Cormac McCarthy's famed Border Trilogy is set in the 1940s and tells the story of 16-year-old Billy Parham and his obsessive quest to return to Mexico a pregnant...... read more
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Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN is an epic nightmare of a novel. Set in the 1850s on the Tex-Mex border, it is about a 14-year-old runaway--known only as "the kid"--who comes of age...... read more
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Cities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthy
The third and last volume of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, CITIES OF THE PLAIN continues the story of Billy Pawson, the cowboy with the heart of an outlaw. Billy becomes involved...... read more
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Child of God
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy third novel, stained in the dark ink of Faulkner and Conrad, and set in rural Tennessee, tells the story of an unsavory loner named Lester Ballard, a murderer and necrophilic....... read more
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Outer Dark
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy's 1968 novel (his second) begins with the birth of a child to Rinthy Holme--a baby boy, who is taken off to the woods and left to die by Culla, Rinthy's brother--who...... read more
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Suttree
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy's highly unusual novel, set in 1951 Knoxville (where the author grew up), is the story of Cornelius Suttree, a distinct oddball unlike the young, questing heroes of...... read more
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The Orchard Keeper
Cormac McCarthy
In rural Tennessee - - Cormac McCarthy's home ground - - a boy named John Wesley Rattner, whose father has been murdered, teams up with Athel Ownby, an aged man who lives in harmony...... read more
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy's bleak vision of the American landscape has always had a cataclysmic undertone, so it comes as no surprise that THE ROAD is actually set in a post - apocalyptic world...... read more
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The Stonemason
Cormac McCarthy
In Cormac McCarthy's five-act play written for (but never produced by) the National Theater in Washington, DC, the Telfairs--a close-knit, hard-working black family from Louisville,...... read more
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The Gardener's Son
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy's 1976 screenplay for a PBS film tells the story of the intertwined fates of two South Carolina families: the wealthy Greggs and the blue-collar McEvoys who work at...... read more
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