Cormac McCarthy

This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive dereliction and destitution with dignity.

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flightbag, the plane’s black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit—by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul. Traversing the American South, from the garrulous barrooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.

Teenager John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, has nothing left to stay for. Across the border Mexico beckons—beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With neighbor Rawlins, and scruffy boy, he rides toward an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN 9780375706677 In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, the setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law–in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell–can contain.As Moss tries to evade his pursuers–in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives–McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph.

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she recalls a childhood where, by the age of seven, her own grandmother feared for her; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, not quite dead, not quite hers. Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia’s psychiatric sessions, Stella Maris is a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda to The Passenger, a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.

The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. 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. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico, not far from the proving grounds of Alamogordo and the cities of El Paso and Juarez. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. They value that life all the more because they know it is about to change forever. The change comes when John Grady falls in love with a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute and sets in motion a chain of events as violent as they are unstoppable. Haunting in its beauty, filled with sorrow, humor, and awe, Cities of the Plain is a genuine American epic.

Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, "The Orchard Keeper" is an early classic from one of America's finest and most celebrated authors. 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. Cormac McCarthy's debut novel is a magnificent evocation of an American landscape, and of a lost American time. "The feeling for the land and seasons is so intense as to be part of the story and there are scenes one will never forget ...A complicated and evocative exposition of the transience of life" - "Harper's". "A true American original" - "Newsweek".

A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment, Black and White, as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing world views. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men though he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is desperate to deny it. Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life. Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted, consistently thought-provoking, and deceptively intimate work by one of the most insightful writers of our time.

A woman bears her brother's child, a boy. The brother 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. Brother and sister wander through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying strangers, toward an apocalyptic resolution.

Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought. In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on the cusp of unimaginable events. First comes a trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild amongst the cattle lately brought onto the plain by settlers - this when all the wisdom of trappers has disappeared along with the trappers themselves. So Billy sets forth at the age of sixteen on an unwitting journey into the souls of boys, animals and men. Having trapped a she-wolf he would restore to the mountains of Mexico, he is long gone and returns to find everything he left behind transformed utterly in his absence. Except his kid brother, Boyd, with whom he strikes out yet again to reclaim what is theirs - thus crossing into "that antique gaze from whence there could be no way back forever." What they find instead, is an extraordinary panoply of fiestas and circuses, dogs, horses and hawks, pilgrims and revolutionaries, grand haciendas and forlorn cantinas, bandits, gypsies and roving tribes, a young girl alone on the road, a mystery in the mountain wilds, and a myth in the making. And in this wider world they fight a war as rageful as the one neither, in the end, will join up for back home. One brother finds his destiny, while the other arrives only at his fate. An essential novel by any measure, and the transfixing middle passage of Cormac McCarthy's ongoing trilogy, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops,and starts the heart and mind at once.

Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard – a violent, dispossessed man who haunts the hill country of East Tennessee – is released from jail and allowed to roam at will, preying on the population with his strange lusts. His everyday actions are transformed into stunning scenes of the comic and the grotesque. And as the story hurtles toward its unforgettable conclusion, McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.

The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Set in the anarchic world opened up by America’s westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account of the barbarous violence that man visits upon man. Through the hostile landscape of the Texas–Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood. But the apparent chaos is not without its order: while Americans hunt Indians – collecting scalps as their bloody trophies – they too are stalked as prey. Since its first publication in 1985, Blood Meridian has been read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form. Powerful, mesmerizing and savagely beautiful, it is established as one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century.

Dans les années 1850, un gamin de quatorze ans part au Texas rejoindre une bande de chasseurs payés pour exterminer les Indiens. Au milieu du désert, la loi n'existe plus. À ce jeu de massacre, seuls survivent ceux qui parviennent à éveiller la plus profonde et la plus intime sauvagerie... Avec cet anti-western basé sur des faits réels, l'auteur nous livre l'un de ses plus grands romans : noir, lyrique et violent.

Inquietante y lúcida, la última novela del gran Cormac McCarthy tiene como escenario un terreno baldío, un páramo carbonizado que es lo único que queda de lo que alguna vez fue Norteamérica. Ya no existe más vida sobre la tierra que la humana y los hombres se comen los unos a los otros. Un padre y su hijo recorren este mundo apocalíptico sin saber cuál es su destino. El protagonista recuerda los viejos tiempos, pero no sabe con certeza si esa memoria no es más que un mito, una necesidad de crear una historia fundacional que dé sentido a la desolación que le rodea. Una demoledora fábula sobre el futuro del ser humano, destinada a convertirse en la obra maestra del autor.

Un uomo e un bambino viaggiano attraverso le rovine di un mondo ridotto a cenere in direzione dell'oceano, dove forse i raggi raffreddati di un sole ormai livido cederanno un po' di tepore e qualche barlume di vita. Trascinano con sé sulla strada tutto ciò che nel nuovo equilibrio delle cose ha ancora valore: un carrello del supermercato con quel po' di cibo che riescono a rimediare, un telo di plastica per ripararsi dalla pioggia gelida e una pistola con cui difendersi dalle bande di predoni che battono le strade decisi a sopravvivere a ogni costo. E poi il bene più prezioso: se stessi e il loro reciproco amore.

Nu există ţară pentru bătrîni este o carte uşor de citit, dar greu de uitat: o poveste cu o intrigă alertă, care nu le oferă personajelor nici o şansă, iar cititorilor nici o pauză de respiraţie. Debutînd cu o tranzacţie ratată în urma căreia deşertul texan se populează cu cîteva cadavre, un transport de droguri şi două milioane de dolari, şirul de evenimente violente se îndreaptă spre un deznodămînt sumbru, o odă funebră pe tema degradării morale a legendarului Vest american.

L'apocalypse a eu lieu. Le monde est dévasté, couvert de cendres et de cadavres. Parmi les survivants, un père et son fils errent sur une route, poussant un Caddie rempli d'objets hétéroclites. Dans la pluie, la neige et le froid, ils avancent vers les côtes du Sud, la peur au ventre: des hordes de sauvages cannibales terrorisent ce qui reste de l'humanité. Survivront-ils à leur voyage?

Estamos en los territorios de la frontera entre México y USA a mitad del siglo XIX. La autoridades mexicanas y del Estado de Texas forman una expedición paramilitar para acabar con el mayor número de indios posible. Es el llamado Grupo Glanton, que tiene como líder espiritual al llamado juez Holden, un ser violento y cruel: un hombre calvo como una bola de billar, albino, sin barba, sin pestañas, ni cejas. Holden Nunca duerme, le gusta bailar y tocar el violín. Viola, asesina y afirma que nunca morirá. En un momento determinado los carniceros de Glanton pasan de asesinar indios y arrancarles la cabellera a exterminar a los mexicanos que les pagaban. Empieza así la ley de la selva. Además del juez el otro protagonista es el Chico, que a sus quince años, recibe un disparo por la espalda pero milagrosamente sobrevive... Las vidas de los dos protagonistas se cruzarán sin remedio. McCarthy es una de las voces más ásperas y potentes de la narrativa norteamericana actual, una voz que recoge la herencia de William Faulkner.

John Grady Cole e Billy Parham lavorano in un ranch fra il Texas e il Messico. Insieme allevano cavalli, ascoltano sotto le stelle i racconti dei vecchi cowboy, si divertono al bar o al bordello. E al bordello John Grady incontra una sedicenne così bella da cambiargli la vita. Così contesa da costringerlo a scontrarsi con il protettore-filosofo Eduardo, in un duello allo stesso tempo epico e metafisico. Ultimo capitolo della "trilogia della frontiera", Città della pianura parte dove arrivavano i primi due romanzi, Cavalli selvaggi e Oltre il confine. In un West sempre più al crepuscolo, la natura esplode fuori e dentro i protagonisti, splendida e spietata. E se percepire il respiro delle cose, restituirlo nella forma di una superiore sapienza, è privilegio di pochi, nemmeno quei pochi possono cambiare gli eventi: possono soltanto far sentire la misteriosa forza che tiene insieme gli alberi, gli animali e i destini degli uomini.

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 montagne messicane, di restituirla al suo mondo, che è poi anche quello di una nonna molto amata. Comincia un lungo viaggio avventuroso che porterà Billy e il fratello Boyd a perdersi e a ritrovarsi in un paesaggio metafisico e spietato.

Texas, 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 in là al Messico, inseguendo un passato nobile e, forse, mai esistito. Attraverso la vastità di un territorio maestoso e senza tempo, i due cowboy, cui si aggiunge il tragico e selvaggio Blevins, intraprendono un viaggio mitico che li porterà fin nel cuore aspro e desolato dei monti messicani. Qui la vita sembra palpitare allo stesso ritmo dei cavalli bradi e gli occhi di Alejandra possono "in un batter di cuore sconvolgere il mondo".

O iarnă atomică în care nu mai există animale sau plante, singura prezenţă constantă este foamea şi orice întâlnire între două fiinţe omeneşti poate sfârşi într-un act de canibalism. Iată decorul postapocaliptic – definit fie prin absenţe tragice, fie prin prezenţe ameninţătoare – prin care călătoresc un bărbat fără nume şi fiul lui, încercând să ajungă la mare. Au un pistol cu două gloanţe, ceva resturi de mâncare şi nişte pături vechi – şi, foarte important, se au unul pe altul. Supravieţuirea înseamnă însă amoralitate, după cum învaţă copilul studiindu-şi tatăl, a cărui dragoste pare a fi ultimul lucru rămas din lumea veche, ultima realitate confortabilă şi ocrotitoare. „Suntem morţii vii care bântuie prin decorul unui film de groază“ – aceasta este starea de spirit în lumea lui McCarthy, pe care n-o colorează decât foarte rare detalii de un umor nostalgic: ultima sticlă de Coca-Cola sau singura inscripţie care a supravieţuit dezastrului nuclear – rămăşiţele unei lumi semănând neliniştitor de mult cu a noastră. Romanul Drumul a câştigat Pulitzer Prize în 2007, James Tait Black Memorial Prize în 2006 şi a fost ecranizat în 2009, în regia lui John Hillcoat, cu Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall şi Charlize Theron în rolurile principale.

Situada en 1949, en las tierras fronterizas entre Texas y México, la historia se centra en el personaje de John Grady Cole, un muchacho de dieciséis años, hijo de padres separados que tras la muerte de su abuelo decide huir a México en compañía de su amigo Lacey, para encontrarse con un mundo marcado por la dureza y la violencia. Una novela de aprendizaje con resonancias épicas que inaugura un paisaje moral y físico que nos remite a la última epopeya de nuestro tiempo. Un estilo seco para una historia de emociones fuertes, ásperas, primigenas: "Su abuelo era el mayor de ocho chicos y el único que vivió más de veinticinco años. Se ahogaron, les dispararon, les cocearon caballos. Perecieron en incendios. Sólo parecía darles miedo morir en la cama. Mataron a los dos últimos en Puerto Rico en 1898 y aquel año se casó y llevó a su novia al rancho y debió de salir a acontemplar sus posesiones y reflexionar largo rato sobre los designios de Dios y las leyes de la primogenitura.

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road— in this screenplay of the major motion picture, the Counselor makes a risky entrée into the drug trade, o n the eve of becoming a married man, and gambles that the consequences won’t catch up to him.   Along the gritty terrain of the Texas–Mexico border, a respected and recently engaged lawyer throws his stakes into a cocaine trade worth millions. His hope is that it will be a one-time deal and that, afterward, he can settle into life with his beloved fiancée. But instead, the Counselor finds himself mired in a brutal and dangerous game—one that threatens to destroy everything and everyone he loves. Deft, shocking, and unforgettable, McCarthy is at his finest in this gripping tale about risk, consequence, and the treacherous balance between the two. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris .

"هتف (غلانتون) واندفع إلى الأمام. وتبعه أربعة رجال. ترجل المحاربون على المرتفع عند خيولهم وقاموا برفع الرجل الساقطة على الأرض. استدار (غلانتون) على السرج دون أن يرفع نظره عن الهنود وقدم بندقيته إلى أقرب رجل. هذا الرجل كان (سام تيت) الذي أخذ البندقية وشد لجام حصانه كثيراً حتى كاد يرميه: تابع (غلانتون) وثلاثة رجال السير، وسحب (تيت) مِدَك البندقية ليسندها وجثا على الأرض ثم أطلق النار. ترنح الحصان الذي يحمل الزعيم المصاب، وأخذ يعدو. أدار الماسورتين ثم أطلق الطلقة الثانية فضربت في الأرض. وكبح الآباتشي عنان خيولهم وهم يصرخون بصيحات حادة. انحنى (غلانتون) إلى الأمام وهمس في أذن حصانه. رفع الهنود قائدهم على حصان جديد وركبوا كل اثنين مع بعضهما ثم ضربوا خيولهم وانطلقوا مرة ثانية. كان (غلانتون) قد سحب مسدسه وأشار به للرجال خلفه، فأوقف أحدهم حصانه وقفز على الأرض وتسطح على بطنه ثم سحب مسدسه وجهزه للإطلاق وسحف رافعة الطلقات ودسها في الترات حاملاً المسدس بين يديه الاثنتين وذقنه مدفونة في الأرض وسدّد من خلال المِهداف. كانت الخيول على بع مائتي ياردة وتتحرك بسرعة. مع الطلقة الثانية وثب الحصان الذي يحمل القائد، وقام راكب قريب منه بمدّ نفسه والإمساك باللجام. كانوا يحاولون أخذ القائد من فوق الحصان المصاب عندما انهار الحصان. كان (غلانتون) أول من وصل إلى الرجل المحتضر، وركع وهو يضع ذلك الرأس الغريب الهمجي بين فخذيه مثل ممرض أجنبي مضرج بالدم وتحدى الهمجيين بمسدسه. أخذوا يدورون في السهل ويهزون أقواسهم ورموا عدة سهام عليه ثم استداروا وابتعدوا. تدفق الدم من صدر الرجل، وأدار عينيه التائهتين إلى الأهلى، وظهرت عليه غشاوة شبه زجاجية، ثم تقطعت العروق الشعرية فيها. في هاتين البركتين القاتمتين استقرت صورة شمس صغيرة رائعة. امتطى حصانه عائداً إلى المعسكر في مقدمة صف رجاله الصغير ورأس الزعيم المعلق من شعره يتدلى من حزامه. كان الرجال يعلقون فروات الرؤوس على قطع من السير الجلدي، وبعض الأموات كانوا مستلقين وقد قطعت شرائع من جلود ظهورهم لتستخدم في صنع الأحزمة وأطقم الخيول. كان المكسيكي الميت (ماكجيل) قد سلخت فروة رأسه. وكانت الجماجم المضرجة بالدم قد بدأت تسود في الشمس. كانت معظم الأكواخ الهندية قد احترقت تماماً... كان (غلانتون) يلفهم آخذاً رمحاً ورافعاً رأس الزعيم فوقه حيث أومأ ونظر بخبث. كان يبدو كرأس كرنفالي، ثم ركب وعاد منادياً ليجمعوا الخيول البديلة ويغادروا". تحكي الرواية قصة همجية الإنسان الذي يصبح القتل ديدنه. إنها قصة صبي ماتت أمه يوم مولده، وكبر الصبي وكان يحمل في داخله ميلاً للعنف الغبي، حتى أن المتمعن يجد أن تاريخاً للعنف يتحلى في تلك الملامح. في عمر الرابعة عشر فر الصبي هارباً إلى الغرب حتى (ممفيس) وعندها تبدأ حكايته.

Siamo al confine tra Texas e Messico, in un paese che ha abbandonato i vecchi valori per cadere in preda a una violenza cieca e incontrollata. Tale violenza si incarna in Anton Chigurh, un assassino psicopatico munito di un'arma micidiale e di una pericolosa filosofia della giustizia. Il suo avversario, un uomo del passato che non sa farsi una ragione della ferocia del presente, è lo sceriffo Bell. Entrambi sono alla ricerca di Llewelyn Moss, un reduce del Vietnam che mentre cacciava antilopi sul Rio Grande si è ritrovato sul luogo affollato di cadaveri di una battaglia fra narcotrafficanti, e ha colto al volo un'occasione che si è rivelata troppo grande per lui. L'inseguimento si svolge lungo e oltre il confine, in un crescendo di suspense e violenza. Il destino di Moss, erede di tutti i cowboy di McCarthy e dei loro valori di dignità e onore, dipende da quale dei due inseguitori lo troverà per primo. Scritto in uno stile veloce e asciutto, crudo e implacabile come una premonizione di tragedia, con i dialoghi incisivi che rendono unica la scrittura di McCarthy, questo romanzo riporta il lettore nei paesaggi del Sudest degli Stati Uniti, popolati da uomini che, "se uno li ammazzasse tutti, toccherebbe costruire una dépendance dell'inferno". Non è un paese per vecchi sarà portato sugli schermi cinematografici da Joel ed Ethan Coen.

Największe arcydzieło Cormaca McCarthy’ego. Bestseller dziennika „The New York Times” wyróżniony Nagrodą Pulitzera. Ostatnie chwile naszej planety. Ostatni ludzie – krwiożercze bestie. Ostatnie ślady naszej cywilizacji – puszka coca-coli i strzępy starych gazet. Piekło apokalipsy spełnionej w uhonorowanej Nagrodą Pulitzera powieści Cormaca McCarthy’ego. Tę książkę czyta się ze ściśniętym gardłem i pełnym przerażenia zachwytem… W przyszłości, która może zdarzyć się jutro lub za tysiąc lat, nastąpił straszliwy kataklizm, który zniszczył naszą cywilizację i większość życia na Ziemi. Wszędzie zgliszcza i ciemność. Kamienie pękają od mrozu. Ani jednego ptaka, ani jednego zwierzęcia, gdzieniegdzie tylko bandy zdziczałych kanibali. Na tle martwego pejzażu dwie ruchome figurki – to ojciec i syn przemierzają zniszczoną planetę. Przed nimi pełna niebezpieczeństw droga w nieznane, wokół nich – świat umarłej nadziei, rozpaczy, strachu, a w nich – wciąż tląca się miłość…