Cormac McCarthy

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road

All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With...

"Told entirely through the transcripts of the narrator's psychiatric sessions, this intimate portrait of grief and longing follows twenty-year-old Alicia Western as she, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, contemplates the nature of madness, her hallucinations and her own existence in 1972 Black River Falls, Wisconsin"--

An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps...

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.

*Premio Pulitzer 2007 por La carretera* Con la historia de Suttree, Cormac McCarthy explora la existencia en sus formas más rudas y hace una reflexión sobre la identidad y la ausencia de propósitos en la vida. Knoxville, Tennessee, década de 1950. La novela relata algunos años de la vida del héroe que da nombre a la novela, Cornelius Suttree, un hombre que deja atrás su vida de familia acomodada, abandonaa su mujer y se compra una barcaza,...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of...

No discussion of great modern authors is complete without mention of Cormac McCarthy, whose rare and blazing talent makes his every work a true literary event. A grand addition to the American literary canon, Suttree introduces readers to Cornelius Suttree, a man who abandons his affluent family to live among a dissolute array of vagabonds along the Tennessee river.

One of America's most celebrated novelists, Cormac McCarthy announced his towering presence on the literary stage with his first novel, The Orchard Keeper. Within the pages of this classic work, John Wesley Rattner, his uncle Ather, and bootlegger Marion Sylder find their lives dangerously entwined in pre-World War II Tennessee. There, the men's tragedies and struggles are mirrored by the looming specter of industrialization.

Sechzehn Jahre nach seinem Weltbestseller Die Straße kehrt Pulitzer-Preisträger Cormac McCarthy zurück mit seinem zweibändigen Meisterwerk. Der Passagier und Stella Maris: Zwei Romane ohne Vorbild. Die Wahrheit des einen negiert die des anderen. 1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, zwanzig Jahre alt, lässt sich mit vierzigtausend Dollar in einer Plastiktüte und einem manifesten Todeswunsch in die Psychiatrie einweisen. Die Diagnose...

Die Welt nach dem Ende der Welt Die Welt nach der Welt gleicht der Welt vor der Schöpfung. "Die Erde war wüst und leer, und es war finster auf der Tiefe". (Moses 1,2) Ein Vater und sein Sohn wandern durch das verbrannte Amerika. Sie haben nichts als einen Revolver mit zwei Schuß Munition, ihre Kleider am Leib, eine Einkaufskarre mit der nötigsten Habe - und sie haben sich. "die straße" ist ein Roman über das Schlimmste und Beste, zu dem die...