― Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men “How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?” This fascinating discussion motivated me not only to read the book but listen to the audiobook read by Tom Stechschulte. “How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?” ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men My first contact with this work of fiction was listening to a 'Partially Examined Life' podcast with three young philosophers and Eric Petrie, a university professor who has made a study of Cormac McCarthy's dark novel set in Texas in 1980. She got up quietly so as not to wake him and checked the door was locked. They lay there for a while until she heard he was asleep. I dont think this conversation is goin noplace, he said. Maybe he aint no more than what he looks like. I bin lying here thinkin and I caint rightly say. A symbol of somethin.Īnd his duel with Llewelyn. Carla Jean and Loretta and Carson and the hitchhiker. Sheriff Bell and Llewelyn and Chigurh and even the minor ones.
He's got a mighty fine ear, that's for sure. He's got the best ear for dialect this side of Mark Twain. Then we gotta do it like McCarthy, he said. He's got the best ear for dialect this side of Mark Twai So are we gonna talk about No Country For Old Men, he said. So are we gonna talk about No Country For Old Men, he said. 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.Īs 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. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. One day, Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, the setting of his famed Border Trilogy.
In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, the setting of his famed Border Trilogy.
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