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No Country for Old Men (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper)) | 
 enlarge | Author: Cormac Mccarthy
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  412 reviews
Sales Rank: 903618
Format: Large Print
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0375435042
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780375435041
ASIN: 0375435042
Publication Date: July 19, 2005
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Product Description
In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones.
One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law–in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell–can contain.
As Moss tries to evade his pursuers–in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives–McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines.
No Country for Old Men is a triumph.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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 The Coin Has No Say August 29, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Cormac McCarthy has a unique and memorable writing style. What you read stays with you because it takes a little effort to internalize it. His storytelling is largely symbolic, as well. If you can read what's between the paragraphs, you'll get the rest of the story.
McCarthy has carved out a place for himself in the writing world by breaking a few rules of conventional writing: punctuation, grammar, dialects, etc. These are ways in which he'll be remembered, which is a shame. He is a gifted writer who should be remembered for his artistry with his pen, not his apostrophe abuse.
There are a few very well placed surprises in No Country for Old Men. I wish now that I had read it when it was a new release. The story takes gentle sweeps instead of big winding twists, but that's what makes it so graceful. The plot twists (if you call them twists) come as a shock, as they should. They are in spots where you believe you know what is coming next. Don't bother bracing yourself, you'll never see them coming.
Five stars, undoubtably. It's an easy, one-day read with a huge payoff and leaves the reader recalling the story even after the last page is turned.
Whipped Through That One August 26, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Excellence one comes to expect from Mr. McCarthy. Quick-paced and gory, this book felt like I was reading a Coen brothers movie - oh, wait... and I haven't even seen the movie.
When is evil too much to face? August 19, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have very conflicted feelings about this book. The stark settings and the no nonsense dialogue, the trap that money creates for Moss, the meditations of Sheriff Bell on the nature of life in the 21st century and the fact that he no longer has a place in it, are all pure genius. It is easy to enter this dark world where the tension never lets up and feel your pulse start to race as the strain Moss is under increases with each page and where anyone else may be collateral damage; McCarthy creates this world and you can't wait to escape it as each event brings you closer to the inevitable ending. The problem for me is the embodiment of all this evil is just too inhuman. I don't mean in his behavior, people are capable of great evil, rather it is the "Terminator" like approach he takes; despite wounds and circumstances that would cause a human being to lay low or give up, Chigurh continues on. It just cut into the believability a bit and I found myself being distracted by this machine-like killer, occasionally to the detriment of my involvement in the story. But I always found myself being pulled back in and even though I knew where it would all finish, I was there to the bitter end.
An Engaging and Thought-Provoking Book August 16, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
"No Country for Old Men" is a unique book. Utilizing a staccato and direct writing style, Cormac McCarthy covers many weighty topics under the umbrella of a disarmingly direct and powerful storyline.
Topics such as life and death, good and evil and choice versus chance are all touched upon over the course of this novel. Beneath the veneer of this action-driven story lie many questions of significant scale and scope. The combination of "big questions" and parsimonious verse make this an engaging and thought-provoking book.
 Tough Read August 13, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I saw the movie, before I read the book. Saw the book sitting on the library shelf and figured I'd read it to get some understanding and clarification of the movie...NOT! I didn't understand the movie and the book really didn't help. Boy, this was a tough read. Besides the fact that there was limited punctuation, I just couldn't find the meaning of it all. The movie did follow the book very closely, except for the ending, I think, and while I was able to remember movie scenes as I read, a lot of it went WAAAAAAAAAYYY over my head.
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