Cormac McCarthy
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick-- a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins-- encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance
2) The road
Author
Language
English
Description
America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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When Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon a group of murdered men, a stash of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash, he makes a rash decision and takes the money, which soon puts himself and his young wife in danger as they are hunted by a ruthless drug lord.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Pass Christian, Mississippi, 1980: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips up the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from a Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that...
5) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The 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. 1972, 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...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
Twenty fifth anniversary edition, first Vintage International edition
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Widely considered one of the finest novels by a living writer, Blood Meridian is an epic tale of the violence and corruption that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "Wild West." Its wounded hero, the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean, must confront the extraordinary brutality of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians. Seeming...
7) Child of God
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Lester Ballard, always an outsider in his East Tennessee community, descends into a world of murder, madness, and necrophilia after the forced sale of his property and a false accusation of rape.
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2008, c[2007]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon a group of murdered men, a stash of heroin, and more than two million in cash, he makes a rash decision and takes the money, which soon puts himself and his young wife in danger as they are hunted by an assassin hired by the drug lord to retrieve the money.