検索キーワード： 著者 "Cormac McCarthy" すべてのカテゴリー

Author of the National Book Award-winning All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier.

Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.

Um marco da literatura norte-americana, Meridiano de sangue é um épico inesquecível e brutal sobre o Oeste americano — um lugar violento e imprevisível, onde real e imaginário se fundem em uma história com dimensões apocalípticas. Meridiano de sangue é um romance épico. Nele...

The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. 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...

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...

A profound exploration of the nature of reality and the human mind, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road and No Country for Old Men. 'A drought-busting, brain-vexing double act’ – Guardian Alicia Western is the following: Twenty years old. A brilliant mathematician at the...

No discussion of great modern authors is complete without mention of Cormac McCarthy, whose rare and blazing talent makes his every work a true literary event. A grand addition to the American literary canon, Suttree introduces readers to Cornelius Suttree, a man who abandons his affluent family to live among a dissolute array of vagabonds along the Tennessee river.

In this taut, chilling audiobook, Lester Ballard - a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape - haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.

A sunken jet, a missing body, and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all understanding. From the bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtakingly dark novel from Cormac McCarthy, the legendary author of No Country for Old Men and...

A sunken jet, a missing body, and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all understanding. From the bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtakingly dark novel from Cormac McCarthy, the legendary author of No Country for Old Men and...

God. Truth. Existence. From the legendary author Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris is a masterful coda to The Passenger. 'It's an uncanny, unsettling dream, tuned into the static of the universe' – New York Times A mathematician, twenty years-old, is admitted to the hospital. She has forty...

Sixteen-year-old Billy and his brother Boyd are fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch. Billy captures the animal – but rather than kill it, sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to where it came from. Billy returns, finding himself...

Two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch, encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn incessantly in this story of friendships and passion, to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.

En un mundo apocalíptico donde llueve ceniza, un hombre y un chico cruzan a pie el territorio norteamericano en dirección al sur. El hambre es mucho más que una preocupación diaria: es la medida de todas las cosas, y las bandas de caníbales asolan el país convertido en un yermo donde solo la barbarie ha echado raíces. El amor de un padre por su hijo es, sin embargo, la única luz de una tierra que ha perdido a sus dioses. Quizá el fuego de la civilización no se haya apagado para siempre.

One of America’s most celebrated novelists, Cormac McCarthy announced his towering presence on the literary stage with his first novel, The Orchard Keeper. Within the pages of this classic work, John Wesley Rattner, his uncle Ather, and bootlegger Marion Sylder find their lives dangerously entwined in pre-World War II Tennessee. There, the men’s tragedies and struggles are mirrored by the looming specter of industrialization.

Two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch, encroached upon from the north by the military. On the...

The Counsellor is the story of a lawyer whose desire to get rich, in order to impress his fiancée, leads him to become involved in a risky drug-smuggling venture. His contacts in the high-stakes cocaine trade are the mysterious Reiner and the seductive Malkina. As the action crosses the Mexican...

Romance semiautobiográfico de Cormac McCarthy, Suttree acompanha quatro anos na vida de um homem que abandonou o conforto da classe média para viver à margem da sociedade. É um clássico cultuado da literatura norte-americana do século XX, que ganha agora sua primeira tradução brasileira—por Daniel Galera.

DIE STILLE VOR DEM SCHUSS. Bei einem morgendlichen Ausflug in die texanische Wüste findet Hobbyjäger Llewellyn Moss eine gespenstische Szenerie vor: mehrere Leichen, eine Pick-up-Ladefläche voller Heroin und am Ende einer Blutspur einen Koffer mit 2,4 Millionen Dollar. Er behält das Geld – sein erster Fehler. Der zweite: In der Nacht kehrt er zum Tatort zurück, um seine Spuren zu verwischen. So gerät er ins Visier des eiskalten Killers Chigurh. Und genau wie der alte Sheriff Bell ist Moss dieser Form von Grauen und Gewalt nicht gewachsen.

En una habitación cerrada, un hombre negro y otro blanco mantienen una dura batalla dialéctica. El hombre blanco, un profesor de humanidades de vida acomodada, atenazado por sus propias dudas acerca de la condición humana, considera que la única salida a la miserable situación en la que se halla el ser humano es arrojarse a las vías del Sunset Limited. Ha llegado a creer que la experiencia de la felicidad es perniciosa para la condición humana. El hombre negro, sin embargo, se encuentra en el polo opuesto y ha llevado una vida marcada por la violencia, la adicción a las drogas y la cárcel.