No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.

Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Texas-Mexico border when he stumbles upon several dead men, a big stash of heroin, and more than two million dollars in cash. He takes off with the money, and the hunter becomes the haunted. A drug cartel hires a former Special Forces agent to track down the loot, and a ruthless killer joins the chase as well. Also looking for Moss is the aging Sheriff Bell, a World War II veteran who may be Moss' only hope for survival.

Raw and lean, No Country for Old Men is another masterpiece from one of America's acclaimed novelists.

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"No Country for Old Men gets off to a riveting start as a sort of new wave, hard-boiled Western....Harrowing, propulsive drama." (The New York Times)
"A mesmerizing modern-day western....While the action of the novel thrills, it's the sensitivity and wisdom of Sheriff Bell that makes the book a profound meditation on the battle between good and evil and the roles choice and chance play in the shaping of a life." (Publishers Weekly)
"Shades of Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, and Faulkner resonate in McCarthy's blend of lyrical narrative, staccato dialogue, and action-packed scenes splattered with bullets and blood. McCarthy fans will revel in the author's renderings of the raw landscapes of Mexico and the Southwest and the precarious souls scattered along the border that separates the two." (Booklist)

Great story!

Really enjoyed this one. Couldn't put it down, in fact. My favorite reads are thrillers but I do have a taste for good writing and I try to familiarize myself with those folks deemed "great writers".

I had read "All the pretty horses" and, frankly, missed the point. "No Country.." offered McCarthy's great style with a plot line that kept me riveted.

Be warned, this is not a conventional thriller and you will not find a neatly packaged ending. If you'd like to try a thriller with a bit more literary content, this is a great choice.

Super narrator, as well!

Genius

This is my first "reading" of Cormac McCarthy. I have rarely been so moved by words - I am still not sure if it is McCarthy, or the artfull reading by Tom Stechschulte, but either way I was enveloped by McCarthy's world and embraced both Bell and Moss as well-repected personal friends.

In a world of that demands black and white, I appreciate a writer that can draw onw into the gray and ask the question -- what would I do?

Give me more of both writer and narrator.

Better than the movie

Excellent read from start to finish. Love the country wisdom and how intense the whole book is. Great performance by the narrator!

Scratching at the surface of a menacing landscape to find a deeper menace

Master filmmakers the Coen brothers, of course, made a film out of this. Halfway through you realize just how close they get to the book itself, to the point where you almost wonder, why?? Thing is this book is pretty great, the use of language tying brutality to the history of the land, and forces at play somehow over and through it all that are impossible to comprehend, and simple American folks in the midst of it, while being an exciting tale through it all that keeps your attention, and keeps you engrossed in its atmosphere. If you’re familiar with the Coen bros films, you can understand how these themes would draw them to this material. But if a work is so well realized, what’s the point of doing it again? In the end though, I think the movie and the film both compliment each other. The novelist and the filmmakers do not have the exact same vision, but they build off of one another’s, enhancing both. Where McCarthy scopes in on brutality, the Coen brothers focus more on absurdity. Still, absurdity and brutality loom large in both the book and the film (they just switch lead roles).
I address the film because it’s interesting, but also because it is most likely most people’s context for the book at this point. With all that said, the book by itself is rich, engrossing and powerful. It proves to be a good entry into the worlds of Cormac McCarthy. I’ve begun both The Road and Blood Meridian, but didn’t get too far in either. Now, after this book, when I have a better understanding of what he’s doing in joining characters to a landscape, I am much more inclined to give those books another go round.

Incredible

Great story and narration. As a fan of the movie, this added way more context and color which is to be expected of course.

Great book!