The novel’s main pursuit-and-escape plot involving Anton Chigurh and Llewelyn Moss. Time Bell is able to return fire with his pistol the pickup truck has vanished in the night, prefiguring the leitmotif of One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by.
The cruiser’s windows and windshield are shot out and its cab largely filled with dirt, and by the Synopsis: In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. Noticing two men sitting in its bed, he turns on his police cruiser’s lights to signal the truck to pull over for inspection,Īnd then an “ old boy settin in the bed of the truck” (38) proceeds to fire three shotgun blasts at Bell’s cruiser, which skids sideways into a bar ditch beside the road when Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.At the outset of chapter two of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men Sheriff Ed Tom Bell describes what turns out to be a violent nighttime encounter with a pickup truck bearing license platesįrom the north central Mexican state of Coahuila on a Terrell County, Texas, two-lane blacktop road. 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, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. It’s about the passing of time and generational change. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. Amid its ambiguity, the ending of No Country for Old Men is the one part that remains as clear as its title.
From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel ( The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy.
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