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Original Title:	No Country for Old Men
ISBN:	0375706674 (ISBN13: 9780375706677)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Ed Tom Bell, Llewelyn Moss, Anton Chigurh, Carla Jean Moss, Dead Dawg, Carson Wells, Deputy Wendell, Loretta Bell
Setting:	United States of America Terrell County, Texas,1980(United States)
Literary Awards:	Hammett Prize Nominee (2005), Audie Award for Audiobook Adaptation (2011), Exclusive Books Boeke Prize Nominee (2007), Falcon Award (2008), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2007)

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Title	:	No Country for Old Men
Author	:	Cormac McCarthy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 309 pages
Published	:	July 11th 2006 by Vintage (first published 2005)
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Crime. Westerns. Literature

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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.

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Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/No Country For Old Men has an unprecedented FOUR POINT THREE TWO rating amongst my Goodreads friends so whats even left to say at this point? Allow me a moment to let the book speak for itself . . . . Do you love it? I guess you could say I do. But Id be the first one to tell you Im as ignorant as a box of rocks so you sure dont want to go by nothing Id say. The story here is of Llewellyn Moss, a single-wide dwelling welder living

Part crime and part Western, No Country For Old Men is a classic on-the-run story. While out hunting one day, Llewelyn Moss comes across a scene of dead men, heroin, and a briefcase full of more than $2M cash. He takes the money, setting off a chase. Others involved in the chase include Wells, a former agent now working for the cartel, Chigurh, a dangerous murderer, and Sheriff Bell, whos struggling with his own moral dilemma from the past. I admit, it took me a good 30% into the story to

No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy who originally wrote the story as a screenplay. The story occurs in the vicinity of the United StatesMexico border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert back country.The plot (of the book, rather than the film) follows the interweaving paths of the three central characters (Llewelyn Moss, Anton Chigurh, and Ed Tom Bell) set in motion by events

Cormac McCarthy is the quintessential American author: He writes about the American West, but not to glorify it or to perpetuate some ideology about "the land of the free". Rather, his poetically crafted novels meditate on greed, power, human fallibility, cruelty, and the devastating randomness of destiny - there is no rectifying karma in his books, and often no redemption. This guy renders his stories in an entrancingly beautiful, highly recognizable language that proves that short, clear

I appreciate the nuances of a McCarthy novel: his voice, the settings, the very real characters he conjures within that mind of his. But the one thing I cannot accept is when people say he only writes westerns. His books cannot be categorized with such a simple claim. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is a perfect example. Sure, McCarthy uses some sterotypes (easy-going sheriff, bumbling hero, and creepy psychopath) to tell his story, but he uses them in ways that few writers can--McCarthy breaths life

Wanting to give up...Refusing to give up...Not knowing the meaning of giving up.When drugs and money come to a small Texas town, sheriff-about-to-retire trope Ed Tom Bell is tasked with solving a deal gone murderously wrong. This is indeed No Country for Old Men. A psychopath of a hitman, Anton Chigurh (that last name being pronounced cheekily similar to "sugar,") is making Bell's last days as sheriff a living hell. Vietnam vet Llewelyn Moss isn't making things any easier. Moss happened upon the

I'm not really a huge fan of Westerns. Only rarely do I settle into this genre and find myself enjoying it. I'm also a bit hesitant when it comes to classics, perhaps from all the years in school of being beaten over the head with them and then forced to analyze the shit out of them.However, I was pleasantly surprised by No Country For Old Men. This book is a fast-paced, bloody chase. It's chalk full of morally questionable characters, with good and bad intentions. The setting is gritty and