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An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America's finest, most celebrated novelists. Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father. Together with Rattner's Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion wit...

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.

Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strange...

Available together in one volume for the first time, the three novels of Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling Border Trilogy constitute a genuine American epic. Beginning with All the Pretty Horses and continuing through The Crossing and Cities of the Plain, McCarthy chronicles the lives of two young men coming of age in the Southwest and Mexico, poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Hauntingly beautiful, filled wit...

In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo, to the South, the twin cities of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions an...

Wat een prachtig boek. Het knappe van McCarthy is dat hij veel dreiging tussen de regels door laat voelen [...]. Boven alles heeft De weg een geweldige stijl, pakkende personages en genoeg materiaal om een avond lang over te praten.' - Ionica Smeets in de Volkskrant Nadat er een gloeiende vuurzee over het land is geraasd, doorkruisen een man en zijn zoontje het doodse Amerikaanse landschap. In deze met as bedekte, vergane wereld volgen zij d...

Tre storie di apprendistato e di eterno vagabondare di cavalli e cavalieri, tra deserti di sale, montagne innevate e pianure d'erba alta, attraverso la leggendaria frontiera fra il Texas e il Messico. Con "Cavalli selvaggi" siamo nel Texas del 1949. Lacerato ogni legame che lo stringeva alla terra e alla famiglia, John Grady Cole sella il cavallo e insieme all'amico Rawlins si mette sull'antica pista che conduce alla frontiera e più ...

Culla e Rinthy, due fratelli che vivono all'inizio di questo secolo nel Sud degli Stati Uniti, sono amanti e hanno un bambino che, appena nato, viene abbandonato da Culla nei boschi. Rinthy parte alla ricerca del piccolo, che nel frattempo è stato raccolto da un calderaio ambulante e affidato a una balia. Nel frattempo anche Culla parte alla ricerca della sorella. Ha così inizio un vagabondaggio parallelo nella poverissima reg...

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Una impresionante e imaginativa fábula moral acerca de la naturaleza de la violencia y la justicia, en su 25 aniversario de publicada. Las autoridades mexicanas y del estado de Texas organizan una expedición paramilitar para acabar con el mayor número posible de indios. Es el Grupo Glanton, y tienen como líder espiritual al juez Holden, un ser violento y cruel. Nunca duerme, viola y asesina niños de ambos sexos y afirma que nunca morirá. Todo ...

Set along a bloody frontier in our own time, McCarthy's new novel completes his acclaimed, bestselling Border Trilogy. Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and over $2 million in cash. He knows taking the money will change everything. Unabridged. 7 CDs.

McCarthy's new play packs all the wallop of his gut-wrenching fiction. "The Sunset Limited, " though, is not about blood and guts but about the battle for the human soul.

A consolidare la fama di McCarthy, da una decina d'anni riconosciuto come il vero erede di quella intensità visionaria che risale a Melville e a Faulkner, è stata questa suggestiva storia di un viaggio iniziatico. Alle soglie della seconda guerra mondiale, Billy, giovane figlio di un piccolo allevatore del New Mexico, riesce a catturare la lupa che minaccia il bestiame, ma non la lascia uccidere: cerca anzi di riportarla sulle...

Chronicles the crimes of a band of desperados, with a particular focus on one, "the kid, " a boy of fourteen.

Joe Penhall's screenplay for the film of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel provides a gripping and unforgettable text for use in English at Key Stage 4. The novel won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the the film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron won praise for its faithful rendering of the novel's dystopian vision. This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by nationa...

In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of "All the Pretty Horses and "The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham--nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know--are cowboys on a New Mexico r...

Cormac McCarthy is the author of many acclaimed novels, including The Road, Blood Meridian and No Country For Old Men. In addition to The Stonemason, he is also the author of another play, The Sunset Limited, and several screenplays. Among his honours are the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for lifetime achievement in American literature.

Una magnética historia de perdedores, narcotraficantes y sueños rotos, obra del genial autor de la Trilogía de la frontera. El cazador y veterano de Vietnam Llewelyn Moss descrubre por casualidad la sangrienta escena de una carnicería entre narcos en algún lugar de la frontera entre Texas y México. Entre los cuerpos y los paquetes de heroína, descubre también algo más de dos millones de dólares. A partir de este momento comienza la violenta ca...

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