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"Tre uomini (il vecchio Zio Ather, il giovane Sylder che contrabbanda liquori e il ragazzino John), sono i protagonisti di una vicenda che ruota attorno a un cadavere, quello del padre di John, ucciso da Sylder e vegliato da Ather in un orto fra le montagne del Tennessee. Ma in un'agghiacciante commedia degli errori nessuno dei tre ha davvero compreso l'identita dell'altro. Il romanzo, primo dell'autore, ricorre a una lingua volutamente arcaica. "

"Lester Ballard e un uomo violento, dal passato difficile. Avendo perso ogni cosa, vive nell'abbandono e da sempre sfida e aggredisce i cittadini del suo paese, East Tennessee. Viene incarcerato, con l'accusa di violenza carnale. Quando si scopre che non e colpevole, gli viene concessa la liberta, il permesso di vagare a piacere, razziando e depredando la popolazione con le sue strane voglie. Normali e casuali incontri per commissioni in merceria, dal maniscalco e all'emporio diventano scene di travolgente forza insieme comica e grottesca. Mentre la storia precipita verso il suo indimenticabile finale, McCarthy dipinge le realta piu sordide della vita con senso umoristico oltre che di partecipazione umana. "

Es un tríptico que comparte escenario, el áspero territorio que une Estados Unidos y México,y está protagonizado por dos hombres desarraigados, Grady y Billy Parham. A través de ellos viviremos la evolucion del sur americano desde que era todavia un territorio salvaje, pasto de parias y cuatreros, hasta la irrupcion descarada de la tecnologia y el capitalismo. Un volumen epico, desolador y a la vez magnifico sobre el siglo XX americano."Pocos escritores han sabido describir con mayor hondura y delicadeza la grandeza del paisaje americano."Eduardo Lago, El Pais

"Per vivere Suttree pesca pesci gatto nelle acque limacciose del fiume Tennessee. E sul fiume vive, in una baracca galleggiante ai margini della citta di Knoxville, fra ratti reali e metaforici. Ci si e trasferito dopo aver abbandonato un'esistenza di privilegi borghesi e pastoie religiose; l'ha fatto per vivere. Ora nel suo nuovo mondo impara cio che il fiume insegna: che nel tutto in movimento - quel flusso ora grigio, ora bruno, nero, marrone, color peltro, ardesia, inchiostro o carbonio della cloaca maxima - ""il colore di questa vita e acqua"" e percio solo ""le forme piu primitive sopravvivono"". Alcune di esse finiscono impigliate nelle sue reti di pescatore e, volente o piu spesso nolente, Suttree deve tentare di portarle in secca, magari immergendosi con loro in liquidi a piu alta gradazione. Prima fra tutte la forma di uno spassoso troglodita come Harrogate, giovane topo di campagna con una passione contronatura per i cocomeri e una determinazione tanto candida quanto feroce a trasformarsi in ratto di citta. A fianco di questo novello Huckleberry Finn e dei suoi guai Suttree impara altri colori dell'infinito scorrere. "

"Tre storie di apprendistato e di eterno vagabondare di cavalli e cavalieri, tra deserti di sale, montagne innevate e pianure d'erba alta, attraverso la leggendaria frontiera fra il Texas e il Messico. Con ""Cavalli selvaggi"" siamo nel Texas del 1949. Lacerato ogni legame che lo stringeva alla terra e alla famiglia, John Grady Cole sella il cavallo e insieme all'amico Rawlins si mette sull'antica pista che conduce alla frontiera e piu in la nel Messico, inseguendo un passato nobile, e forse, mai esistito. ""In Oltre il confine"", quando il destino gli offre l'occasione di passare la frontiera, il giovane Billy Parham compie la sua scelta e dirige il cavallo verso il Messico insieme al fratello Boyd. Billy ha appena catturato una lupa ferita che si stava accanendo sul bestiame della famiglia e ha deciso di non consegnarla al padre, che la ucciderebbe, ma di riportarla sulle montagne messicane per restituirla al suo mondo. ""Citta della pianura"" inizia dove arrivavano i primi due romanzi. All'inizio degli anni Cinquanta John Grady Cole e Billy Parham lavorano in un ranch tra il Texas e il Messico. Insieme allevano cavalli, ascoltano sotto le stelle i racconti dei vecchi cowboys, si divertono al bar o al bordello. E al bordello John Grady incontra una sedicenne cosi bella da cambiargli la vita. Cosi contesa da costringerlo a scontrarsi con il suo protettore-filosofo Eduardo, in un duello allo stesso tempo epico e metafisico. "

In Cormac McCarthy's ninth novel, his first in seven years, Llewellyn Moss, a hunter in McCarthy's Texas border country, happens upon $2 million in cash and a small fortune in heroin (as well as a heap of dead bodies), takes the money and drugs, and goes into hiding. This sets in motion a chain of events revolving around Sheriff Bell, the book's true hero--a brooding, introspective man haunted by the human capacity for evil (and by the ambiguities of his own life). The cast of characters also includes a completely amoral thief and murderer on the run after a prison escape, and the drug lord who is trying to track down his missing millions. McCarthy's gripping blood-soaked saga is both a compelling adventure story and a meditation on the horrors that humans are sometimes prey to.

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 everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?""No Country for Old Men" is a compelling, harrowing, disturbing, sad, endlessly surprising and resonant novel" - Robert Edric, "Spectator". ""No Country for Old Men" is a severed head and shoulders over anything else written in America this year" - "Independent on Sunday". "A Western thriller with a racy plot and punchy dialogue, perfect for a lazy Sunday" - Sarah Emily Miano, "The Times". "[An] utterly absorbing, chilling tale...One of the most sinister characters in modern American fiction" - "Herald". "A fast, powerful read, steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West" - Lionel Shriver, "Financial Times".

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim's burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes that Moss and his young wife are in desperate need of protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex-Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches along and across the border, each participant seemingly determined to answer what one asks another: How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? A harrowing story of a war that society wages on itself, an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, and a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.

*Premio Pulitzer 2007 porLa carretera*Con la historia de Suttree, Cormac McCarthy explora la existencia en sus formas más rudas y hace una reflexión sobre la identidad y la ausencia de propósitos en la vida.Knoxville, Tennessee, decada de 1950. La novela relata algunos años de la vida del heroe que da nombre a la novela, Cornelius Suttree, un hombre que deja atras su vida de familia acomodada, abandona a su mujer y se compra una barcaza, en la que vivira, para convertirse en pescador uniendose a una banda de vagabundos, ladrones, prostitutas, jugadores y demas parias cuya vida transcurre entre la mera supervivencia y una muerte sordida.El protagonista comparte los rasgos tradicionales de los heroes de McCarthy: es un solitario impenitente, acaba presa de un aislamiento que nunca se explica del todo y el momento de la vida en que se encuentra se describe con una crudeza y una intensidad poetica que elude todo analisis. Asi, la vida de Cornelius Suttree se convierte en el relato de una vida anonima, sin compromisos, que explora la existencia en sus formas mas rudas de un modo que no esta exento de lirismo, para acabar convirtiendose en una reflexion sobre la identidad y la ausencia de propositos en la vida.** Mejor novela extranjera publicada en 2004 segun "Cultura/s",La VanguardiaLa critica ha dicho...McCarthy es sinonimo de grandeza literaria.El PaisUn autentico grande de la literatura contemporanea, inclemente pero compasivo hasta vencer la nausea. Con toda certeza, un maestro.La Vanguardia

Dans le monde dévasté de l'apocalypse, un jeune homme et son père errent sur une route, affrontant le froid, la pluie, la neige, fuyant toute présence humaine. En un voyage crépusculaire, poussant leur chariot rempli d'objets hétéroclites, ils marchent vers la mer. Prix Pulitzer 2007. L'apocalypse a eu lieu. Le monde est dévasté, couvert de cendres. Un père et son fils errent sur une route, poussant un caddie rempli d'objets hétéroclites et de vieilles couvertures. Ils sont sur leurs gardes car le danger peut surgir à tout moment. Ils affrontent la pluie, la neige, le froid. Et ce qui reste d'une humanité retournée à la barbarie. Cormac McCarthy raconte leur odyssée dans ce récit dépouillé à l'extrême. Prix Pulitzer 2007, La Route s'est vendu à plus de deux millions d'exemplaires aux États-Unis. « Héritier de la Bible et de Shakespeare, de Hawthorne et de Faulkner, archaïque, lyrique et visionnaire, sensible à la beauté du monde, McCarthy est hanté par la violence des hommes et la question du Mal. » Nathalie Crom, Télérama

Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. 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. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age.

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food - and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

Llewelyn 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 everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? '"No Country for Old Men" is a compelling, harrowing, disturbing, sad, endlessly surprising and resonant novel' - Robert Edric, "Spectator". '"No Country for Old Men" is a severed head and shoulders over anything else written in America this year' - "Independent on Sunday". 'A fast, powerful read, steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West' - Lionel Shriver.

'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.