Cormac McCarthy
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Passenger novels volume 1
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"Pass Christian, Mississippi, 1980: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight 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 flightbag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring...
2) The road
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"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...
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"Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians and sell those scalps." --publisher's website
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
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"The tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood."--publisher's website.
5) Stella Maris
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Passenger novels volume 2
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"Told entirely through the transcripts of the narrator's psychiatric sessions, this intimate portrait of grief and longing follows twenty-year-old Alicia Western as she, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, contemplates the nature of madness, her hallucinations and her own existence in 1972 Black River Falls, Wisconsin"--Provided by publisher.
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"One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law–in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell–can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers–in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human...
7) Child of God
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Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard is released from jail, and a trip to the dry-goods store, an errand to the blacksmith, and other incidents are transformed into scenes of the comic and the grotesque.
8) The crossing
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 2
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"In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing, he begins an arduous and often dreamlike journey into a country where men meet ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat-lightning–a world where there is no order 'save that which death has put there.'"--publisher's website.
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 3
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In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.
In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham—nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know—are cowboys on a...
In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham—nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know—are cowboys on a...
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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 entrée 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...
Along the gritty terrain of the Texas–Mexico border, a respected and...
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"Set is a remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it is the story of a young boy and a bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy’s father. The boy, John Wesley Rattner, and the outlaw, Marion Sylder–together with Rattner’s Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence--enact a drama that seems born of the land itself. All three are...
13) Der Passagier
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Sechzehn Jahre nach seinem Weltbestseller Die Straße kehrt Pulitzer-Preisträger Cormac McCarthy zurück mit dem ersten Teil seines zweibändigen Meisterwerks. Der Passagier und Stella Maris: Zwei Romane ohne Vorbild. Die Wahrheit des einen negiert die des anderen.
1980, Pass Christian, Mississippi: Bobby Western, Bergungstaucher mit Tiefenangst, stürzt sich ins dunkle Meer und taucht hinab zu einer abgestürzten Jet Star. Im Wrack findet er neun...
14) Die Straße
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Die Welt nach dem Ende der Welt
Die Welt nach der Welt gleicht der Welt vor der Schöpfung.
"Die Erde war wüst und leer, und es war finster auf der Tiefe". (Moses 1,2)
Ein Vater und sein Sohn wandern durch das verbrannte Amerika. Sie haben nichts als einen Revolver mit zwei Schuß Munition, ihre Kleider am Leib, eine Einkaufskarre mit der nötigsten Habe - und sie haben sich.
"die straße" ist ein Roman über das Schlimmste und Beste, zu dem die...
15) Stella Maris
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Sechzehn Jahre nach seinem Weltbestseller Die Straße kehrt Pulitzer-Preisträger Cormac McCarthy zurück mit seinem zweibändigen Meisterwerk. Der Passagier und Stella Maris: Zwei Romane ohne Vorbild. Die Wahrheit des einen negiert die des anderen.
1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, zwanzig Jahre alt, lässt sich mit vierzigtausend Dollar in einer Plastiktüte und einem manifesten Todeswunsch in die Psychiatrie einweisen. Die Diagnose...
16) Outer Dark
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Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers,...
18) Suttree
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From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville.
Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there—a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters—he...
Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there—a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters—he...
19) The counselor
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A lawyer makes a risky entrance into the drug trade, and gambles that the consequences won't catch up with him.
20) The counselor
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A lawyer makes a risky entrance into the drug trade, and gambles that the consequences won't catch up with him.