Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy.
Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim’s burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes how desperately Moss and his young wife need protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex–Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches up and down and across the border, each participant seemingly determined to answer what one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
A harrowing story of a war that society is waging on itself, and an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, No Country for Old Men is a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.
no book for absent-minded readers. ci ho messo un po' troppo ad accorgermi che bell e wells sono due personaggi diversi: questo non ha giovato all'immediata comprensione dell'intreccio. superato questo piccolo inciampo, mi sono innamorata di chigurh (un vero uomo, yeah! combina meravigliosamente ingegno e ottusità profonda, è fedele ai suoi principi, è più stoico di rambo e solo in una cosa è del tutto inverosimile, come maschio: prende gli antibiotici per cinque giorni di seguito).
povero bell. se non altro i coen l'hanno risarcito (e quanto) dandogli la faccia di tommy lee jones.
Nel Texas di oggi,lungo il confine con il Messico, si incrociano i destini di tre uomini- Uno di loro sta fuggendo con una borsa piena di dollari, gli altri due lo inseguono.Tutti agiscono spinti da una necessità ineluttabile, in un mondo dove solo gli spietati sopravvivono e dove si può scegliere soltanto "in quale ordine abbandonare la propria vita"
...ContinuaBrilliant. Saw the film first - loved it - didn't know who Cormac McCarthy was. Then recently was looking for something to read after The Sisters Brothers and someone recommended this. Looking forward to reading other McCarthy Books..
If you've read The Road and Blood Meridian and happen to love the kind of baroque, majestic prose that McCarthy is capable of writing, you may need to know that No Country for Old Men is not that kind of book. It's much sparer. It has much emphasis on the action and dialogue (being previously written as a screenplay.) And it's not an easy read: the Texan dialects, the blank space that McCarthy leaves between the words, Bell's monologues, etc. Not a bad book, but it's not for me though.
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