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'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 first screenplay by Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road.The Gardener''s Son is the tale of two families: the wealthy Greggs, who own the local cotton mill, and the McEvoys, a family of mill workers beset by misfortune.Two years ago, Robert McEvoy was involved in an accident that led to the amputation of his leg. Consumed by bitterness and anger, he quit his job at the mill and fled. Now, news of his mother''s terminal illness brings Robert home. What he finds on his return stokes the slow burning rage he carries within him, a fury that ultimately consumes both the McEvoys and the Greggs.This taut, riveting drama was Cormac McCarthy''s first written screenplay. Directed by Richard Pearce, it was produced as a two-hour film in 1976 and received two Emmy Award nominations. This is the first UK publication of the film script in book form.

Inquietante y lúcida, la última novela del gran Cormac McCarthy tiene como escenario un terreno baldío, un páramo carbonizado que es lo único que queda de lo que alguna vez fue Norteamérica. Ya no existe mas vida sobre la tierra que la humana y los hombres se comen los unos a los otros. Un padre y su hijo recorren este mundo apocaliptico sin saber cual es su destino. El protagonista recuerda los viejos tiempos, pero no sabe con certeza si esa memoria no es mas que un mito, una necesidad de crear una historia fundacional que de sentido a la desolacion que le rodea. Una demoledora fabula sobre el futuro del ser humano, destinada a convertirse en la obra maestra del autor.

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.

Un pai e un fillo camiñan sós por un mundo frío, onde apenas nada se move, agás a cinza e a neve no vento. Empurran un carriño pola estrada, van cara ao sur, buscando a salvación. Todo está morto e extinguido ao seu redor e como unica proteccion levan unha pistola para se defender dos bandidos. Esta e a cronica impactante e conmovedora dunha viaxe de supervivencia nun tempo de futuro sombrio, posterior a unha catastrofe nuclear. O autor novela o mellor e o peor da condicion humana, logrando unha obra que colleitou importantes galardons: Pulitzer de ficcion (2007), Premio James Tait Black Memorial (2006) e finalista do National Book Critics Circle (2006). Ilustracion de portada: Marc Taeger

Del autor de La carretera (Premio Pulitzer 2007), una obra sobre el significado de la vida y de la muerte En una habitación cerrada, un hombre negro y otro blanco mantienen una dura batalla dialectica. El hombre blanco, un profesor de humanidades de vida acomodada, atenazado por sus propias dudas acerca de la condicion humana, considera que la unica salida a la miserable situacion en la que se halla el ser humano es arrojarse a las vias del Sunset Limited. Ha llegado a creer que la experiencia de la felicidad es perniciosa para la condicion humana. El hombre negro, sin embargo, se encuentra en el polo opuesto y ha llevado una vida marcada por la violencia, la adiccion a las drogas y la carcel. Pero a pesar de todo no ha perdido su fe. Encerrados en un debate filosofico, los dos contrincantes defienden de manera apasionada sus credos personales y tratan de convertir al otro. Ambas visiones, fundamentalmente contrarias, confluyen en esta conversacion que ahonda en el vacio que se abre entre el silencio de Dios y lo inevitable de la muerte.

In the vanishing world of the Old West, two cowboys begin an epic adventure, and their own coming-of-age stories. In All the Pretty Horses, John Grady Coles search for a future takes him across the Mexican border to a job as a ranch hand and an ill-fated romance. The Crossing is the story of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham, who sets off on a perilous journey across the mountains of Mexico, accompanied only by a lone wolf. Eventually the two come together in Cities of the Plain, in a stunning tale of loyalty and love.

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 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 foodand 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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.

Part of the Border triology, this work features John Grady Cole who is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. 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, a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

Le corps d'une jeune fille abandonné dans la neige, l'épave d'un avion échoué au fond des eaux, un homme en fuite. Autant d'images qui illuminent le nouveau roman de Cormac McCarthy. Des rues de La Nouvelle-Orleans aux plages d'Ibiza, son heros, Bobby Western, conjugue sa melancolie a tous les temps. Cet homme d'action est aussi un mathematicien et un physicien, deux disciplines qu'il a abandonnees apres la mort de sa soeur Alicia, disparue mysterieusement dix ans plus tot.Hante par la culpabilite, Western trouvera-t-il enfin le repos ? Roman noir, histoire d'une passion, Le Passager est aussi une parabole sur le deracinement de l'homme moderne. A quatre-vingt-dix ans, Cormac McCarthy nous surprend une fois de plus par son audace. Entre une conversation sur la physique quantique, un traite de la solitude et la description d'une tempete dans le golfe du Mexique, il se joue des conventions et demeure l'un des romanciers les plus singuliers de notre epoque.

1972. Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Alicia Western, vingt ans, est admise à sa demande dans une institution psychiatrique.Au cours de neuf séances avec son thérapeute, elle nous livre les clés de son

Cormac McCarthy regressa com o segundo livro da série O Passageiro, Stella Maris, um retrato íntimo de uma jovem mulher que dá entrada num hospital psiquiátrico à procura de entender a própria existê

Dezasseis anos depois, Cormac McCarthy, vencedor do Prémio Pulitzer com A Estrada, regressa com o primeiro de dois novos livros. O Passageiro narra a história de um mergulhador de resgate, assombrado pela perda, receoso das aguas mais profundas, e que, perseguido por uma conspiraço que no compreende, anseia por uma morte que no consegue conciliar com Deus. O projeto ficara concluido com Stella Maris, livro que sera igualmente publicado pela Relogio DAgua, em traduço de Paulo Faria.

A beautiful, limited edition slipcase containing Cormac McCarthy's two-book masterpieceThe Passenger1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: 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 him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit - by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul. Traversing the American South, from the garrulous bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness. Stella Maris1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital.