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Savage violence and cruel morality reign in the backwater deserts of Cormac McCarthy's No
Country for Old Men   a tale of one man's dark opportunity - and the darker consequences that
spiral forth.  Adapted for the screen by the Coen Brothers ( Fargo   True Grit )  winner of
four Academy Awards (including Best Picture).    'A fast  powerful read  steeped with a deep
sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West' - Financial Times   1980.
Llewelyn Moss  a Vietnam veteran  is hunting antelope near the Rio Grande when he 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?   'It's hard to think of a
contemporary writer more worth reading' - Independent    Part of the Picador Collection  a
series showcasing the best of modern literature.   Praise for Cormac McCarthy:  'McCarthy
worked close to some religious impulse  his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright
author of The Green Road and The Wren  The Wren   'His prose takes on an almost biblical
quality  hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King  author of
The Shining and the Dark Tower series  'In presenting the darker human impulses in his rich
prose  [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie Proulx 
author of Brokeback Mountain

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