Cormac McCarthy

The first authoritative descriptive bibliography of the major author with over 130 full color photographs of all first and collectible editions. A descriptive bibliography of first editions, letters, and autograph material by Cormac McCarthy.

An original screenplay by the author of No Country For Old Men, The Counselor is a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott and starring Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy's original screenplay is the story of a lawyer who is so seduced by the desire to get rich, to impress his fiancée, that he becomes involved in a risky drug-smuggling venture. His contacts in this high-stakes cocaine trade are the mysterious and probably corrupt Reiner and the seductive Malkina, so exotic her pets of choice are two cheetahs. As the action crosses the Mexican border, things become darker, more violent and more sexually disturbing than he could ever have imagined. Deft, shocking and unforgettable, this gripping tale about risk, consequence and the treacherous balance between the two reveals Cormac McCarthy at his finest.

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road--in this screenplay of the major motion picture, the Counselor makes a risky entr e into the drug trade, on the eve of becoming a married man, and gambles that the consequences won't catch up to him. Along the gritty terrain of the Texas-Mexico border, a respected and recently engaged lawyer throws his stakes into a cocaine trade worth millions. His hope is that it will be a one-time deal and that, afterward, he can settle into life with his beloved fianc e. But instead, the Counselor finds himself mired in a brutal and dangerous game--one that threatens to destroy everything and everyone he loves. Deft, shocking, and unforgettable, McCarthy is at his finest in this gripping tale about risk, consequence, and the treacherous balance between the two.

McCarthy transforms commonplace brushes with humanity into stunning scenes of the comic and the grotesque, and as the story hurtles toward its unforgettable conclusion, depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humour, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.

Med sitt lyrisk inspirerte, detaljerte og originale språk, sine nærgående skildringer av liv og landskap og sine dype fortellinger, noen av dem på grensen til det bibelske, tar Cormac McCarthy opp en helt unik plass i samtidslitteraturen.Frukthagen, den første romanen hans, her for første gang på norsk, er allerede en klassiker, og en roman som nevnes i selskap med flere av William Faulkners.Handlingen er lagt til et lite sted utenfor Knoxville, Tennessee, i 1930- årene.Her bor John Wesley, en ung gutt på leting etter seg selv, men også Marion Sylder, en outcast og hjemmebrenner. Uten at noen av dem er klar over det, har.Marion Sylder.tatt livet av guttens far. Disse to, og Johns onkel, Arthur Ownby, en gammel mann fra en annen tid og med en annen tenkemåte, vikles inn i et drama som synes å være like gammelt som landskapet rundt dem..

Joe Penhall's screenplay for the film of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel provides a gripping and unforgettable text for use in English at Key Stage 4. The novel won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the the film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron won praise for its faithful rendering of the novel's dystopian vision. This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications endorsed by national organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across Britain, each book in the series:meets the new requirements at KS3 and GCSE (2010) features detailed, structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language analysis places pupils' understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities will help pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills at KS3 will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources. The Road is set a few years after an unexplained cataclysmic world disaster has left the earth barren and hostile. It follows a father and son as they struggle to survive in a landscape where men either starve or join the marauding gangs of cannibals. Readers are advised that there are some scenes of a disturbing nature.

The Sunset Limited: A gripping philosophical drama from the legendary Cormac McCarthyDeft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian.A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment, the two men, known as 'Black' and 'White', begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history.White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence has left him in despair. Black, an ex-con recovering from drug addiction, is the more hopeful of the men. He is desperate to convince White of the power of faith, while White is equally desperate to deny it.Between them, they hope to discover the meaning of life itself in this compelling exploration of existentialism, nihilism, and the human condition.'The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page' – Financial Times

Temaet i Et Guds barn er menneskelig fornedrelse. Boken skal være løst basert på en virkelig mordsak i Tennessee og er en rystende sterk leseropplevelse.Cormac McCarthy er født i Rhode Island i 1933. Et Guds barn, hans tredje roman, utkom i 1973 og fikk en splittet mottakelse: Noen foraktet den, andre lovpriset den. I dag regnes den gjerne som et høydepunkt i forfatterskapet. McCarthy har gitt ut en rekke romaner og skuespill, og anses som en av de store samtidsforfatterne i USA. Grensetrilogien er blant hans mest leste og kjente bøker; Alle de vakre hestene, Over grensen og Byene på høysletten. Filmatiseringene av Ikke et land for gamle menn (som mottok fire Oscars, bl.a. for beste film i 2007) og Veien (2009) har gjort navnet hans kjent – også ut over den knallharde menigheten som alltid har elsket bøkene hans. Terningkast 6. «Ikke for tynne nerver … Men du verden for en litterær prestasjon.»VG «En klassiker!»Morten Harry Olsen, Klassekampen «… en av de merkeligste, jævligste og mest fascinerende bøker jeg har lest på lenge.»Fredrik Wandrup, DagbladetCormac McCarthys hjemmesiderOm Cormac McCarthy på wikipediaSamtale i Time Magazine mellom Cormac McCarthy og Coen-brødrene om filmatiseringen av No Country for Old Men

"You think I come from another world, don't you? Filled with all these strange things you've never seen...Well I do, I guess." Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006. Released shortly after his No Country for Old Men was turned into an Oscar-winning film, The Road's cinema version of the novel is directed by John Hillcoat, stars Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron and is an official selection for the 66th Venice Film Festival 2009. Joe Penhall's adaptation is a faithful, careful crafting of the book for the screen, fully evoking the atmosphere of menace and desperation. The Road is set a few years after an unexplained cataclysmic world disaster has left the earth poisoned, barren and hostile. While ash blocks out the sun and the earth no longer fosters plant or animal life, men either starve or join the maruading gangs of cannibals. The plot follows an unnamed father and son on a bleak epic across the wasteland and features a series of horrifc encounters in a merciless world starved of life and hope. This edition includes a full list of cast and crew credits.

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

A harrowing novel set in the American West, now an Academy Award winning film starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin.

A uniquely brilliant book . . . told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting. One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time' Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood. All the Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece from Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy, and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival.

The Road is the astonishing post-apocalyptic and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy.A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the men who stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food - and each other.'So good that it will devour you. It is incandescent.' -Daily Telegraph

Bei einem morgendlichen Ausflug in die texanische Wüste findet Hobbyjäger Llewellyn Moss eine gespenstische Szene vor: mehrere Leichen, Heroin und am Ende einer Blutspur einen Koffer mit 2,4 Millionen Dollar. Er behält das Geld und gerät so selbst ins Visier des eiskalten Killers Chigurh. Doch genau wie der alte Sheriff Bells ist Moss dieser Form von Gewalt und Grauen nicht gewachsen?

Die Welt liegt in Trümmern, überall Ruinen und Staub, nur Reste von Vegetation. Die Sonne sieht man kaum, nachts herrscht völlige Finsternis. Nur wenige haben überlebt. In dieser untergegangenen Welt kämpfen ein Vater und sein kleiner Sohn ums Überleben, versuchen Nahrung aufzutreiben, neue Kleidung und sich davor zu schützen, gefressen zu werden. Eine düstere Utopie, für die McCarthy 2007 den Pulitzer-Preis erhielt.

En far och hans son vandrar ensamma genom ett nedbränt amerikanskt landskap. Kylan är genomträngande och snön som faller blandas med askan i luften. Himlen är släckt på ljus.Deras destination är kusten, men de vet inte om något väntar på dem där. Allt de har är en pistol att försvara sig med mot de laglösa gäng som rör sig längs vägen, de kläder de bär på kroppen, en kundvagn med mat de hittat -- och varandra.Vägen är en djupt gripande berättelse om en resa. På ett hypnotiskt kraftfullt sätt ställs kärleken mellan en far och hans son mot en hopplöst skrämmande framtid. Det värsta och det bästa som människan kan åstadkomma genomströmmar detta mörka, intagande mästerverk."Hans berättelse om överlevnad och godhetens mirakel bara förstärker McCarthys ställning som en levande mästare."San Francisco Chronicle"Ofattbart... Detta är ett bedövande och briljant verk, på samma gång fruktansvärt träffande och imponerande universellt."The Guardian

This handsome edition of McCarthy's completed Border Trilogy in one volume gives the reader one of the most important works of American fiction of the last decades. McCarthy's work is far more than a western, but crosses the borders between fiction and philosophy, the real and the world of dream. With influences ranging from the traditional western; the coming-of-age story; the courtly romance; classical tragedy; and magical realism, McCarthy's masterpiece is a work to be read and read again. This new volume containing all three of the novels, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain, is a welcome addition to the canon of McCarthy's works in print.

Die Welt nach dem Ende der Welt
 
 Ein Mann und ein Kind schleppen sich durch ein verbranntes Amerika. Nichts bewegt sich in der zerstörten Landschaft, nur die Asche im Wind. Es ist eiskalt, der Schnee grau. Sie haben nur noch ihre Kleider am Leib, einen Einkaufswagen mit der nötigsten Habe ? und einen Revolver mit zwei Schuss Munition. Ihr Ziel ist die Küste, obwohl sie nicht wissen, was sie dort erwartet. Ihre Geschichte ist eine düstere Parabel auf das Leben, und sie erzählt von der herzzerreißenden Liebe eines Vaters zu seinem Sohn.
 
 Für diesen Roman wurde Cormac McCarthy 2007 mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnet.