Books by Cormac McCarthy

Portrait of Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy stands among the most distinctive voices in modern American fiction, renowned for his stark prose and unflinching depictions of human endurance. His novels often explore the fragile boundary between civilisation and wilderness, blending biblical cadence with cinematic intensity. From the desolate frontiers of the American South-West to post-apocalyptic landscapes, his writing captures both the brutality and the strange beauty of existence.

A Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, McCarthy's work includes such landmarks as *Blood Meridian*, *The Road* and the Border Trilogy. His mastery of rhythm, silence and moral complexity has influenced generations of writers and filmmakers alike. Reading McCarthy is to encounter language stripped to its elemental power-stories that confront the darkness yet search, persistently, for grace.

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  • The Crossing

    Pan Macmillan The Crossing

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisCormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, Child of God and The Passenger. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country for Old Men the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of 89.Trade ReviewThe Crossing, together with its predecessor All the Pretty Horses, towers over most contemporary fiction. An American epic infused with a grand solemnity * Sunday Times *McCarthy writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read . . . They are stories about people as real as the land they ride and as disturbing as the rituals they enact * Daily Telegraph *Admirers of All the Pretty Horses will need little encouragement . . . McCarthy speaks to us in the thrilling, apocalyptic tones of an Old Testament prophet. We must treasure him * Sunday Telegraph *The Crossing is like a river in full spate: beautiful and dangerous * The Times *Nominally Westerns, these books are too entropic and philosophical to fit within the limits of the genre. They summon the ghosts of history, and haunt the gaps between justice and reality -- Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room

    15 in stock

    £9.49

  • Cities of the Plain

    Pan Macmillan Cities of the Plain

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisCormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, Child of God and The Passenger. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country for Old Men the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of 89.Trade ReviewIn a lovely and terrible landscape of natural beauty and impending loss we find John Grady; a young cowboy of the old school, trusted by men and horses, and a fragile young woman, whose salvation becomes his obsession . . . McCarthy makes the sweeping plains a miracle. * Scotsman *Like the Western settings he captures to perfection, his work is both heart-wrenchingly beautiful and uncompromisingly brutal. * Express *The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature * Guardian *This haunting, deeply felt novel completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990s * Telegraph *Like a slow-acting hallucinogen, the book has managed to transform a Texas boy of sixteen looking for adventure into a mysterious figure that augurs the destruction of the world -- Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room

    15 in stock

    £9.49

  • The Counsellor

    Pan Macmillan The Counsellor

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisBrought to the screen by Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) and starring Michael Fassbender, The Counselor is an original screenplay from the legendary author of No Country for Old Men and The Road, Cormac McCarthy. 'McCarthy has delivered a brutal study in grief' – Empire, on the filmA man, unnamed, wants to be rich. So entranced is he by this need, and the desire to impress his fiancée, that he works his contacts to become involved in a high-risk game: drug-smuggling across the US-Mexico border.His contacts in the cocaine trade are mysterious, corrupt and seductive. They speak of a device called 'the bolito' which, around the neck of its victim, constricts and decapitates. They warn of the Mexican cartels, whose brutality is without mercy.And so it is, as the action crosses into Mexico, the Counselor's life becomes darker, more violent and more sexually disturbingTrade ReviewNo Country for Old Men on a bender -- IndieWire on the filmThe real stars of director Ridley Scott's moody, bloody crime thriller The Counselor aren't Fassbender, Bardem, Diaz, Cruz, or Pitt but writer Cormac McCarthy's words -- IGN on the filmScott and McCarthy have created a film that in less accomplished hands could have slumped into melodrama, but that retains the grim humour, and the granitic implacability, of a classic morality tale -- Total Film on the filmMcCarthy has delivered a brutal study in grief -- Empire on the film[A] great, misunderstood film -- Esquire on the film

    15 in stock

    £10.44

  • Child of God

    W F Howes Ltd Child of God

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £17.01

  • Stella Maris

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Stella Maris

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    Book SynopsisThe best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence.“McCarthy’s art is transcendent even as it takes no prisoners, an achievement akin only to the oeuvres of his greatest peers, Toni Morrison and Philip Roth. He will endure.” —Oprah DailyThe richest and strongest work of McCarthy’s career…An achievement greater than Blood Meridian…or…The Road.” —The Atlantic1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she doe

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    £15.00

  • Cornelsen Verlag GmbH The Road

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £11.25

  • Reclam Philipp Jun. The Road

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    £8.36

  • Rowohlt Verlag GmbH Der Passagier

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £23.80

  • Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlorene

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £16.20

  • Rowohlt Taschenbuch Drauen im Dunkel

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    £14.40

  • Rowohlt Taschenbuch Kein Land für alte Männer

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £16.20

  • Rowohlt Taschenbuch Die Straße

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £14.40

  • Rowohlt Taschenbuch Der Anwalt The Counselor Ein Drehbuch

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £12.34

  • Rowohlt Taschenbuch Der Feldhter

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £13.49

  • Rowohlt Taschenbuch Die Abendröte im Westen

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £17.00

  • En la frontera  The Crossing

    Prh Grupo Editorial En la frontera The Crossing

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £14.41

  • Edicions 62 La carretera

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisEncuadernación: Tapa blanda con solapa.La carretera és la història profundament commovedora del viatge d'un pare i un fill. Tots dos caminen sols per un paisatge apocalíptic on res no es mou, llevat de les cendres arrossegades pel vent. El cel és fosc i el fred és tan terrible que és capaç de trencar les pedres. No tenen res: només una pistola per defensar-se de les bandes violentes que sotgen el camí, la roba que duen posada, un carretó amb menjar recollit de les escombraries... I l'un a l'altre.Mereixedora del Premi Pulitzer 2007, aquesta magistral novella planteja sense embuts un futur on no hi ha esperança, però on un pare i el seu fill, \"l'un per l'altre el món sencer\", resisteixen per amor. Imponent pel que fa a la profunditat visionària, La carretera és una lúcida meditació sobre el pitjor i el millor de què som capaços: destrucció extrema, tenacitat desesperada i la tendresa que manté dues persones vives enmig de la devastació total.\"McCarthy despulla els se

    1 in stock

    £18.52

  • Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Meridiano de Sangre / Blood Meridian

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £18.68

  • Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El pasajero - Stella Maris / The Passenger -

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £19.06

  • Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial La carretera / The Road

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £22.01

  • Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial No es país para viejos / No Country for Old Men

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £23.41

  • Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Todos los hermosos caballos / All the Pretty

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £24.54

  • Debolsillo Ciudades de la llanura

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £16.22

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  • No es país para viejos

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisEncuadernación: RústicaColección: ContemporáneaEl cazador y veterano de Vietnam Llewelyn Moss descrubre por casualidad la sangrienta escena de una carnicería entre narcos en algún lugar de la frontera entre Texas y México. Entre los cuerpos y los paquetes de heroína, descubre también algo más de dos millones de dólares. A partir de este momento comienza la violenta carrera de Moss por escapar de los que quieren darle caza: Wells, ex agente de las Fuerzas Especiales contratado por un poderoso cartel; Antón Chigurth, una implacable máquina de matar, para quien recuperar el dinero de sus jefes es apenas la excusa para descargar una y otra vez su arma y poner en práctica su máxima: no dejar nunca testigos; y un sheriff veterano de la segunda guerra mundial que añora los buenos tiempos y esconde un doloroso secreto que lo mantiene vivo. El resultado es una novela que es mucho más que un thriller corriente (Time Magazine) que te dejará jadeando y atemorizado (Sam Shepard). No hay mane

    1 in stock

    £13.73

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