No Country for Old Men
Categories: Literature & Fiction
No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by Cormac McCarthy, author of Blood Meridian and The Road. The Coen brothers' 2007 film adaptation won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1980 West Texas, welder Llewelyn Moss finds a drug deal gone wrong and a case holding two million dollars. Taking it sets the hit man Anton Chigurh on his trail. Aging sheriff Ed Tom Bell follows the trail of killings and reflects on a world of violence he no longer understands.
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- Stephen King: “In the most accessible book he’s ever written, McCarthy serves up the year’s most memorable villain, Anton Chigurh, who dispatches his victims with a slaughterhouse cattle gun, and his most memorable hero, a slow-moving, decent sheriff very much in the John Ford mode.”