“cormac mccarthy”

Llewlyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change... More

Following All the Pretty Little 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 Worl... More

McCarthy's new play packs all the wallop of his gut-wrenching fiction. "The Sunset Limited," though, is not about blood and guts but about the battle for the human soul.A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must ... More

Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is an early book from one of America's finest and most celebrated authors. It tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to ei... More

Set in an unnamed part of Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century, Outer Dark is a grand, mythic tale of love and loss from one of America's finest and most celebrated authors. The story begins as a woman bears her brother's child, a boy: he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he... More