Cormac McCarthy
1) The road
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2006 | 1st ed. | Alfred A. Knopf | 241 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
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p2006 | Recorded Books | 6 sound discs (6 hrs., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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2007 | Center Point large print ed. | Center Point Pub | 254 p. (large print) ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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In this postapocalyptic novel, 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. They 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...
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2007, c2005 | Vintage movie tie-in ed. | Vintage International/Vintage Books | 309 p. ; 21 cm. | English |
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2005 | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 7 sound discs (7.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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c2005 | 1st large print ed. | Random House Large Print | 437 p. (large print) ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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Stumbling upon a bloody massacre, a cache of heroin, and more than two million in cash during a hunting trip, Llewelyn Moss removes the money, a decision that draws him and his young wife into the middle of a violent confrontation.
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1992 | 1st ed. | Distributed by Random House | 301 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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p2000 | Harper Audio | 10 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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Cormac McCarthy is a quiet, unassuming presence in American fiction today, but like the slow, measured voices of many of his characters, he speaks with an authority and conviction that demands an audience. All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's sixth novel, is a cowboy odyssey for modern times. Set in the late 1940s, it features the travels and toils of a 16-year-old East Texan named John Grady Cole, caught in the agonizing purgatory between adolescence...
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1998 | 1st ed. | Distributed by Random House | 291 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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p2005 | Unabridged. | Books on Tape | 8 sound discs (ca. 532 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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A Texas cowboy falls in love with a Mexican prostitute, only to discover he has a rival, her pimp. The pimp refuses to let her go because he will lose money and the stage is set for a violent confrontation.
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2001 | Modern Library ed. | Modern Library | xiii, 337 p. ; 20 cm. | English |
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p2007 | Recorded Books | 12 sound discs (13 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of desperados, with a particular focus on one, "the kid," a boy of fourteen.
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2013. | First Vintage International edition. | Vintage International, Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc | 184 pages ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
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p2013 | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 3 sound discs (3 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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On the eve of his marriage, the Counselor makes a risky decision to dealve into the cocaine trade along the Texas-Mexico border. His hope is that this one-time deal will set him and his fiancée on a path to financial freedom, but instead he ends up in a brutal game that threatens to destroy everything and everyone he loves.
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The screenplay for McCarthy's classic film, bearing in full measure his gift-the ability to fit complex and universal emotions into ordinary lives and still preserve all of their power and significance; In the spring of 1975 the film director Richard Pearce approached Cormac McCarthy with a screenplay idea. Though already a widely acclaimed novelist, the author of such modern classics as The Orchard Keeper and Child of God, McCarthy had never before...
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The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier. His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path...
10) Outer dark
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1993 | 1st Vintage International ed. | Vintage Books | 242 pages ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
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This stark novel is set in an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he 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. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution....
11) The crossing
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1994 | A.A. Knopf | 425 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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[2008] | Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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Llewelyn Moss stumbles onto a drug deal gone monumentally wrong while hunting in the parched Texas scrubland near the Mexico border. A satchel filled with $2 million seems to be a ship finally arrived, and he dreams of moving his wife Carla Jean out of the trailer park and into the good life. It isn't long before he's being tracked Anton Chigurh, a psychopathic "debt collector." Sheriff Bell sets out to find Llewelyn, not so much for the propriety...
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1982, c1965 | Ecco Press | 246 p. ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
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One of America's most celebrated novelists, Cormac McCarthy announced his towering presence on the literary stage with his first novel, The Orchard Keeper. Within the pages of this classic work, John Wesley Rattner, his uncle Ather, and bootlegger Marion Sylder find their lives dangerously entwined in pre-World War II Tennessee. There, the men's tragedies and struggles are mirrored by the looming specter of industrialization.
14) Child of God
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1993 | 1st Vintage International ed. | Vintage Books | 197 p. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
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Cormac McCarthy has won nearly every major literary honor, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Set in Tennessee in the 1960s, this chilling novel sees Lester Ballard become increasingly isolated from society. After taking a deceased woman as a girlfriend, he "saves her" from a fire - and his life spirals into deepening depravity.
15) Suttree
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[1992] | First Vintage International edition. | Vintage International, Vintage Books | 471 pages ; 21 cm. | English |
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The story or Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there - a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters - he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.
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c1994 | 1st ed. | Ecco Press | 133 p. : ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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p2010, c2006 | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 2 sound discs (1.75 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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An encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. The two men begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing worldviews.
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1999 | Knopf | 301, 425, 291 p. ; 21 cm. | English |
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19) The road
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c2010 | Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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A holocaust has destroyed the world. Civilization lies in ruins. Nothing grows. The Man and his young son, the Boy, struggle across the devastated, post-apocalyptic landscape, pushing their belongings in a shopping cart, hoping to reach the coast. It is almost impossible to find any food. Life on the road is a deadly game of hide, seek, and devour with bloodthirsty bands of roving, starving, survivalist types, many of whom have fallen into cannibalism....
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1998 | 1a ed. | Editorial Debate | 273 p. ; 19 cm. | Español | On Shelf
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