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November 24, 2009
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The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2009)

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-307-47631-9 (0-307-47631-6)

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The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2009)

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47630-2 (0-307-47630-8)

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La carretera

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47325-7 (0-307-47325-2)

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The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2008)

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45529-1 (0-307-45529-7)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist

A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post

The searing... Read more >

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No Country for Old Men (Movie Tie In Edition)

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38713-4 (0-307-38713-5)

In this blistering novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones.

One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by... Read more >

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The Road

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 28, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38789-9 (0-307-38789-5)

The 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. The sky is dark. Their... Read more >
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The Sunset Limited

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27836-4 (0-307-27836-0)

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... Read more >

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The Road

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26543-2 (0-307-26543-9)

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... Read more >
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No Country for Old Men

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70667-7 (0-375-70667-4)

In this blistering novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones.

One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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No Country for Old Men

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: July 19, 2005
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-40677-5 (0-375-40677-8)

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... Read more >
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Blood Meridian
Or the Evening Redness in the West
Written by Cormac McCarthy
Introduction by Harold Bloom


Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 2, 2001
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-64104-9 (0-679-64104-1)

"The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner," writes esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition. "I venture that no other living American novelist, not... Read more >
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The Border Trilogy
All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain
Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Hardcover, 1040 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: September 28, 1999
Price: $36.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-40793-2 (0-375-40793-6)

Available together in one volume for the first time, the three novels of Cormac
McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling Border Trilogy constitute a genuine
American epic.

Beginning with All the Pretty Horses and continuing through The Crossing and Cities of the Plain, McCarthy chronicles the lives of two young men coming of age in the... Read more >

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Cities of the Plain

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 25, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74719-2 (0-679-74719-2)

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or... Read more >
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Cities of the Plain

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 12, 1998
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-42390-4 (0-679-42390-7)

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The Stonemason
A Play in Five Acts
Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76280-5 (0-679-76280-9)

From a writer hailed as an American original comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an African-American family. Set in Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s, the Telfairs are stonemasons and have been for generations. Out of the love that binds Ben Telfair and his grandfather, Papaw, and the... Read more >

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The Crossing

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 14, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76084-9 (0-679-76084-9)

In The Crossing, McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time gives us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegiac power of a lost American myth.

In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy... Read more >
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The Crossing

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 7, 1994
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-57475-2 (0-394-57475-3)

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All the Pretty Horses

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 29, 1993
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74439-9 (0-679-74439-8)

Winner of the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award

This first part of McCarthy's Border Trilogy tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers.  Across the border Mexico beckons--beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With two companions, Cole sets off on an... Read more >
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Child of God

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 29, 1993
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72874-0 (0-679-72874-0)

Child of God is a taut, chilling novel that plumbs the depths of human degradation. Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man who haunts the hill country of East Tennessee--is released from jail and allowed to roam at will, preying on the population with his strange lusts. A trip... Read more >

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Outer Dark

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 29, 1993
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72873-3 (0-679-72873-2)

Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set in an unspecified place in Applachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells his sister the baby died of natural causes. Discovering... Read more >

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The Orchard Keeper

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 2, 1993
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72872-6 (0-679-72872-4)

Cormac McCarthy's first novel, The Orchard Keeper is set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars. It tells the story of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed... Read more >

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Blood Meridian
Or the Evening Redness in the West
Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 5, 1992
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72875-7 (0-679-72875-9)

Blood Meridian is the epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting 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... Read more >
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Suttree

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 5, 1992
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73632-5 (0-679-73632-8)

Suttree is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there--a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters--Suttree rises above the physical... Read more >

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All the Pretty Horses

Written by Cormac McCarthy


Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 21, 1992
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-57474-5 (0-394-57474-5)

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