No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, No Country For Old Men is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road.

Llewelyn 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?

• ISBN10: 0330511211
• ISBN13: 9780330511216
• Publish Date: 1 January 2010 (first published 1 July 2005)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 28 May 2023
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Imprint: Picador
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 320
• Language: English

Reviews

Really good up until the end. I can see why the movie left some parts out. I didn't really get the last few chapters but maybe that was because I was listening to it instead of reading and had been driving all day.

[jamiereadthis]

Just as excellent as expected. It would have been five stars— again— had the last fifth not gotten a little too “Damn kids on my lawn” for my taste.

Also, it doubled my respect for the Coen brothers’ film, how closely they stuck to McCarthy’s roadmap. I have to say, though, I thought the Chigurgh found here— more terrifyingly “normal,” less immediately unhinged— was on the whole much more effective and disturbing. Which, if you know what I’m talking about... says a lot.