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Cormac McCarthy
A powerful, dramatic playfrom the bestselling author of No Country for Old Men and The Road
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‘The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature’ Guardian
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No Country for Old Men is a compelling, harrowing, disturbing, sad, endlessly surprising and resonant novel’ Robert Edric, Spectator
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and is estimated to become the third most common cause of death over the next decade…
From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road-in this screenplay of the major motion picture, the Counselor makes a risky entree into the drug trade, on the eve of…
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At once brutal and tender, despairing and rashly hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, this work is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and…
For use in schools and libraries only. In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of…
Volume Two of the Border Trilogy
One of America’s greatest living writers, now eighty-eight, returns with a book - a pair of books, together a masterpiece - a decade in the making.
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The first screenplay by Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road.
One of America’s greatest living writers, now eighty-eight, returns with a book - a pair of books, a masterpiece of a duet - a decade in the making.
Set in Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s, The Stonemason is a multi-generational drama about black men struggling to maintain their dignity. The drama evokes the subtleties of Grecian tragedy with…
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.
Cormac McCarthy’s first novel in more than a decade.
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * The first of a two-volume masterpiece, The Passenger series, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road * The story of a salvage diver…
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road * An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as…
In this modern-day Western–his first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, bestselling Border Trilogy–McCarthy pens a harrowing story of a war that society wages on itself, an…
An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America’s finest novelists and author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller All the Pretty Horses. Set in…
Set in Appalachia around the turn of the century, this evocative novel tells of a woman who bears her brother’s child. The father hides the baby in the woods and…
A taut, chilling novel that plumbs the depths of human degradation, this is the story of Lester Ballard–a violent, dispossessed man, falsely accused of rape–who haunts the hill country of…
Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of outlaws, with a particular focus on…
Arguably the masterpiece of a novelist as highly praised and scarcely read as any living writer, the Vintage Contemporaries reprint of Suttree should help to bring McCarthy the readers to…
This National Book Award winner tells the story of John Grady Cole who, at 16, finds himself at the dying end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off…
In this magnificent novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. The setting is New Mexico in 1952…
A young boy finds his life changed by a dream about wolves running freely on land that has been claimed by settlers, and his subsequent journey involves a parting with…
This handsome edition of McCarthy’s completed Border Trilogy in one volume gives the reader one of the most important works of American fiction of the last decades. This new volume…
‘McCarthy has a true ear for the truncated rhythms of dialogue … intensely alive to the power of words.’ The Times
A brilliant and brooding piece of writing by the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing, this taut, riveting drama presents the tale of the…
Patrick O'Connor
Explains Cormac McCarthy’s consistent philosophical preoccupations across the span of his literary output.
Explains Cormac McCarthy's consistent philosophical preoccupations across the span of his literary output.
Lydia R. Cooper
Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in McCarthy’s literary works. McCarthy’s fiction makes a significant case study demonstrating how literature can…
This collection of essays is the first book to examine Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy as a trilogy, the first to read them as an integrated whole. Together these explorations of…
Gabe Rikard
The author uses Michel Foucault’s theories on power, resistance and discipline to analyze the interactions of mountaineers and the authorities who have attempted to modernize them. The book shows how…
This collection shows how Cormac McCarthy’s The Road reacts aesthetically to many of the ethical, ontological, and political concerns that define our times.
Greg Clinton
The works of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy can be described as dark, mysterious, and violent. His unique writing style and Southern Gothic, post-apocalyptic brand of literature defy classification and…
Charlotte Bahr
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Wurzburg, language: English, abstract: The Road, Cormac McCarthy’s tenth and…
In the decades since his 1992 breakout novel, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy has gained a reputation as one of the greatest contemporary American authors. This volume offers strategies…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
John Cant (Essex University, UK)
This overview of McCarthy’s published work to date includes: the short stories he published as a student, his novels, stage play and TV film script.
Leslie Harp Worthington
This volume discusses the intertextual connections between Mark Twain’s iconic novel and eight works by author Cormac McCarthy. By chronicling the scholarly comparisons between Twain and McCarthy and exploring the…
BESTSELLER NACIONAL * GANADORA DEL PREMIO PULITZER * Una demoledora fabula sobre el futuro del ser humano, destinada a convertirse en la obra maestra del autor.
La carretera, novela galardonada…
