EAN: 9781035003785

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Savage violence and cruel morality reign in the backwater deserts of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men a tale of one man's dark opportunity - and the darker consequences that spiral forth. Adapted for the screen by the Coen Brothers ( Fargo True Grit ) winner of four Academy Awards (including Best Picture). 'A fast powerful read steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West' - Financial Times 1980. Llewelyn Moss a Vietnam veteran is hunting antelope near the Rio Grande when he stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies several kilos of heroin and a caseload of cash he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter he knows will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? 'It's hard to think of a contemporary writer more worth reading' - Independent Part of the Picador Collection a series showcasing the best of modern literature. Praise for Cormac McCarthy: 'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright author of The Green Road and The Wren The Wren 'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series 'In presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie Proulx author of Brokeback Mountain

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