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Adult Books - Fiction - General Fiction
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No Country for Old Men.
McCarthy, Cormac (author).
July 2005. 352p. Knopf, hardcover, $26 (0-375-40677-8).
REVIEW.
First published May 15, 2005 (Booklist).
Dark themes suffuse McCarthy’s first offering since his completion of The Border Trilogy , whose opening installment, All the Pretty Horses earned him both the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992. Texas welder Llewelyn Moss makes a dubious discovery while out hunting antelope near the banks of the Rio Grande: a dead man, a stash of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Moss packs out the money, knowing his actions will imperil him for the rest of his life. He’s soon on the run, left to his own devices against vengeful drug dealers, a former Special Forces agent, and a psychopathic freelance killer with ice blue eyes. Shades of Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, and Faulkner resonate in McCarthy’s blend of lyrical narrative, staccato dialogue, and action-packed scenes splattered with bullets and blood. McCarthy fans will revel in the author’s renderings of the raw landscapes of Mexico and the Southwest and the precarious souls scattered along the border that separates the two. Many are the men here who maim in the name of drugs. “If you killed ‘em all,” says the local sheriff, “they’d have to build an annex onto hell.” — Allison Block
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1. Notable Books : 2006
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