No Country for Old Men. Collection Edition

Beschreibung

One of The Guardian's best 100 novels of all time<BR>A gripping tale of set in the American West, Cormac McCarthy's iconic No Country for Old Men follows a Vietnam veteran's dark path after stumbling upon a drug deal gone wrong.<BR><BR>'A Western thriller with a racy plot and punchy dialogue' - The Times<BR><BR>1980. Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Rio Grande when he discovers the aftermath of a drug deal turned deadly.

Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice - walk away or take the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything.<BR><BR>And so begins a terrifying chain of events, as each player in this brutal game seems determined to answer one question: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?<BR><BR>'It's hard to think of a contemporary writer more worth reading' - Independent<BR><BR>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.<BR><BR>Praise for Cormac McCarthy:<BR><BR>'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren<BR><BR>'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series<BR><BR>'In presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain<BR><BR>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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