No Country for Old Men

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4.4
303 reviews
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From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the 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, a good old boy named 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.

Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Ratings and reviews

4.4
303 reviews
Scott Vining
February 8, 2021
It's a story that kept me entertained but that's about it. He definitely writes in a unique style but unfortunately that style just makes the book unnecessarily confusing, especially for dialogue. The story was interesting but it was hard to become immersed due to how little detail the author goes into in general. He hardly describes the characters appearances, and the same goes for anything in this story. I want to know more details about the world and environment the story takes place in. Maybe this style or genre isn't for me, who knows.
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A Google user
September 28, 2017
I can't quite put my finger on McCarthy's style. I have enjoyed several of his works, and No Country for Old Men didn't disappoint. His subject matter tends to send me into a nostalgic spiral where I sometimes question my personal history and the person I've become. For me, reading McCarthy is like an existential crisis ... but there's that little spark of promise in there that tells me everything will be okay, even when it's not.
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A Google user
February 16, 2008
McCarthy's most accessible book. Some might find his other books harder to get through, but this was an easy read and also quite moving.
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About the author

The novels of the American writer, CORMAC McCARTHY, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men—the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. He died in 2023.

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