No country for old men
“McCarthy at his most elegant… The work of an author with exquisite sensibilities, whose journey towards that lawless border country has been charted in an increasingly clear and original voice” (New Statesman).
First edition first printing of this masterpiece by Cormac McCarthy.
An attractive copy preserved in its publisher’s binding with the original dust jacket.
In-8 de 309 pp., (1) f., cartonnage noir de l’éditeur, jaquette.
212 x 140 mm.
McCarthy, Cormac. No country for old men.
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005.
First edition first printing of this masterpiece by Cormac McCarthy.
“A compelling, sad, endlessly surprising and resonant novel” (Robert Edric, Spectator).
À la frontière qui sépare le Texas du Mexique, les trafiquants de drogue ont depuis longtemps remplacé les voleurs de bétail. Lorsque Llewelyn Moss tombe sur une camionnette abandonnée, cernée de cadavres ensanglantés, il ne sait rien de ce qui a conduit à ce drame. Et quand il prend les deux millions de dollars qu’il découvre à l’intérieur du véhicule, il n’a pas la moindre idée de ce que cela va provoquer...Moss a déclenché une réaction en chaîne d’une violence inouïe que le shérif Bell, un homme vieillissant et sans illusions, ne parviendra pas à contenir.
The story occurs in the vicinity of the Mexico–United States border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert back country. Owing to the novel’s origins as a screenplay, the novel has a simple writing style that differs from McCarthy’s earlier novels.
The book was adapted into a 2007 Coen brothers film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
The plot follows the paths of the three characters set in motion by events related to a deal gone bad near the Mexican–American border in Terrell County in Texas.
Llewelyn Moss stumbles across the aftermath of a drug deal gone awry that has left all but one dead.
William J. Cobb, in a review published in the Houston Chronicle (July 15, 2005), characterized McCarthy as “our greatest living writer” and describes the book as “a heated story that brands the reader’s mind as if seared by a knife heated upon campfire flames”.
An attractive copy preserved in its publisher’s binding with the original dust jacket.
Signature d’un ancien possesseur.
