Thursday, January 24, 2008
No Country For Old Men
For those who have just seen the critically acclaimed masterpiece from the Coen Brothers, we would like to tell you that we have the book that this film was based on in our library. It's written by Cormac McCarthy and the book is equally as good as the film.
For the uninitiated;
Llewlyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything.
And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?"
"No Country for Old Men" is a compelling, harrowing, disturbing, sad, endlessly surprising and resonant novel" - Robert Edric, "Spectator".
""No Country for Old Men" is a severed head and shoulders over anything else written in America this year" - "Independent on Sunday".
"A Western thriller with a racy plot and punchy dialogue, perfect for a lazy Sunday" - Sarah Emily Miano, "The Times".
"[An] utterly absorbing, chilling tale...One of the most sinister characters in modern American fiction" - "Herald".
"A fast, powerful read, steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West" - Lionel Shriver, "Financial Times".