{"title":"Cormac McCarthy","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"cormac-mccarthy-3-books-collection-set-fiction-paperback","title":"Cormac McCarthy 3 Books Collection Set (Road, Blood Meridian \u0026 No Country for Old Men) - Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitles in This Set\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Road\u003cbr\u003eBlood Meridian\u003cbr\u003eNo Country for Old Men\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781529064438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Picador\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOverview\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis paperback collection brings together three of Cormac McCarthy's most celebrated novels: the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road, the frontier epic Blood Meridian, and the modern classic No Country for Old Men. Spanning a post-apocalyptic wasteland, the violent American West, and a drug deal gone catastrophically wrong, this bundle is a perfect introduction — or addition — for readers who love dark, unflinching literary fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn The Road, a father and son walk together through a burned, ash-covered America, armed with only a pistol and a shopping cart of scavenged supplies, their bond the last flicker of hope in a dying world. Blood Meridian follows a fourteen-year-old runaway known only as \"the kid\" as he falls in with a scalp-hunting gang along the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, in a novel that dismantles the mythology of the Wild West with savage, biblical prose. No Country for Old Men opens when Llewelyn Moss stumbles across the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong in the Texas desert — bodies, heroin, and two million dollars in cash — and makes the fateful decision to take the money, setting off a relentless pursuit by the implacable killer Anton Chigurh, while an aging sheriff tries to make sense of a world turning stranger and crueller by the day. Together, these three novels showcase McCarthy's singular voice: spare, poetic, violent, and profoundly humane, cementing his reputation as one of the most important American novelists of the last century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree acclaimed novels by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author in one great-value set\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes The Road, Blood Meridian \u0026amp; No Country for Old Men — award-winning modern classics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrand new paperback editions, perfect for gifting or building a literary collection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdeal for fans of literary fiction, crime thriller, and post-apocalyptic fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo of the three titles were adapted into critically acclaimed feature films\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCompact, durable paperback format — easy to read, store, and travel with\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCormac McCarthy was an American novelist and playwright celebrated for his stark, powerful prose and unflinching exploration of violence, morality, and the American landscape. Over a career spanning six decades he wrote ten novels, including the Border Trilogy, Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, and The Road, the latter earning him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 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Spanning westerns, crime, and literary fiction, it's an essential set for readers wanting McCarthy's stark, uncompromising vision of America. Perfect for a personal library or gifting to a serious fiction reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Road follows a father and son picking their way through a burned-out, ash-choked America, their bond the only warmth in a cold, dying world. Blood Meridian is a hallucinatory reimagining of the American West, following the mysterious Kid through a landscape of violence and moral collapse. No Country for Old Men turns a chance discovery of drug money into a lean, relentless chase across the Texas borderlands, pitting an ageing sheriff against an unstoppable killer. All the Pretty Horses, the first novel in the Border Trilogy, follows young cowboy John Grady Cole into Mexico in search of a life that ranching back home can no longer offer him. The Crossing, the trilogy's second book, sends teenage Billy Parham on a haunting journey across the border, shadowed by loss and the passage of time. Cities of the Plain closes the trilogy, bringing together characters from the two earlier books as the old ways of the West give way to a changing world. 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