Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses, the first novel of the Border Trilogy, published in 1992, was an international bestseller, winning both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It tells the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself the last bewildered survivor of generations of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only...

In early 2012 it was announced that Cormac McCarthy had written an original screenplay -- news which provoked huge excitement, a swift deal and the appointment of Ridley Scott to direct. But this is no ordinary screenplay. This is a work of extraordinary imagination which draws on many of the themes of McCarthy's work as well as taking it to new...

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged, nuclear landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is grey. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don`t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to...

Una impresionante e imaginativa fbula moral acerca de la naturaleza de la violencia y la justicia. Una novela epica sobre la violencia y la depravacion que acompaaron a la expansion de America hacia el oeste, Meridiano de sangre subvierte esplendidamente las convenciones de la novela occidental y la mitologa del ';salvaje oeste'. Basada...

Un padre y su hijo caminan solos por una Amrica devastada. Nada se mueve en el paisaje quemado salvo cenizas en el viento. El cielo es oscuro, la nieve gris, y el fro es capaz de romper las rocas. Su destino es la costa, aunque no saben qu, si algo, les espera all. No tienen nada; slo una pistola para defenderse contra las bandas que acechan la...

Book 2 of The Border TrilogyFollowing All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought.In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on the cusp of...