In All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy begins his Border Trilogy with a coming of age tale that is a departure from the bizarre richness and mysterious violence of his early novels, yet in many ways preserves the mystery and the richness in a more understated form. Like Blood Meridian, this novel follows a young man's journey to the regions of the unknown. John Grady Cole, more heroic than the protagonists of McCarthy's earlier novels, confronts the evil that is an inescapable part of the universe as well as the evil that grows out of his own ignorance and ...
Przera?aj?ca postapokaliptyczna wizja przysz?o?ci Ameryki w powie?ci uznanej za najwi?ksze arcydzie?o Cormaca McCarthy’ego.Spalona Ameryka, ciemno??, proch i kurz przes?aniaj?ce niebo. Kamienie p?kaj? od mrozu, a ?nieg, kt?ry pada, jest szary. Ani jednego ptaka, ani jednego zwierz?cia, gdzieniegdzie tylko zdzicza?e bandy kanibali. Jaki? straszliwy a nienazwany kataklizm zniszczy? nasz? cywilizacj? i wi?kszo?? ?ycia na ziemi. Na tle martwego pejza?u po katastrofie dwie ruchome figurki – to ojciec i syn przemierzaj? zniszczon? planet?. Zmierzaj? ku wybrze?u lecz co tam zastan?? Przed nimi d?...
Prowadzi?a go z?a gwiazda… Sta? na rozstaju dr?g, poza spo?ecze?stwem, ponad prawem, ponad moralno?ci?. Niekochany, niechciany. Mordowa?, przekroczy? pr?g z?a, odkry? w sobie besti?. Lester Ballard w peruce z wysch?ego skalpu ludzkiego, ubrany w bielizn? nale??c? do swych ofiar. Lester Ballard, „dzieci? bo?e, stworzone na wz?r i podobie?stwo twoje”. Powie?? dla os?b o mocnych nerwach. Tylko dla doros?ych.
Historia de dos adolescentes, Billy y Boyd, de origen campesino, que en medio de un paisaje hostil y hura?o ir?n descubriendo las duras reglas del mundo de los adultos al tiempo que encuentran en la naturaleza el sentido heroico de sus vidas.Segundo volumen de la llamada «Trilog?a de la frontera», En la frontera nos remite a un tiempo inmediatamente anterior al de Todos los hermosos caballos, para centrarse en la historia de dos adolescentes, Billy y Boyd, de origen campesino, que en medio de un paisaje hostil y hura?o ir?n descubriendo las ...
Oparta na autentycznych wydarzeniach z po?owy XIX wieku historia czternastoletniego ch?opca, kt?ry pewnego dnia ucieka z domu od owdowia?ego ojca pijaka i wyrusza na Po?udnie. Wkracza na drog?, kt?ra przypomina podr?? Dantego w g??b Piek?a. To czasy bezlitosnej masakry Indian, ciemne karty w historii Ameryki, naznaczone przemoc? i bezprawiem.W 2006 r. ksi??ka zaj??a trzecie miejsce w plebiscycie „New York Timesa” na najwa?niejsz? powie?? ameryka?sk? 25-lecia.Planowana jest jej ekranizacja (re?. Ridley Scott).'Arcydzie?o. Po??czenie „Piek?a”, „Iliady” i „Moby Dicka”. Dawno nie czyta?em podobnej ksi??ki. Wspania?e, zapieraj?ce dech w piersi dzie?o'. (John Banville)
Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy's first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy.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 how desperately Moss and his young wife need protection. ...
A 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. They 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 ...
A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.In that small apartment, “Black” and “White,” as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing world-views. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men—though he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is desperate to deny it.Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life.Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, “The Sunset Limited” is a beautifully crafted, consistently thought-provoking, and deceptively intimate work by one of the most insightful writers of our time.
