Cormac McCarthy: No Country for Old Men (2010, Pan Macmillan)
English language
Published May 24, 2010 by Pan Macmillan.
No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, who had originally written the story as a screenplay. The story occurs in the vicinity of the Mexico–United States border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert back country. Owing to the novel's origins as a screenplay, the novel has a simple writing style different from other Cormac McCarthy novels. The book was adapted into the 2007 film No Country for Old Men, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
There is a lot of Racism in this book that can't be explained as part of the plot. There are things done really well, live capturing the vernacular of a place, but I'd have trouble recommending this one.
