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Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island. He attended the University of Tennessee in the early 1950s, and joined the U.S. Air Force, serving four years, two of them stationed in Alaska. McCarthy then returned to the university, where he published in the student literary magazine and won the Ingram-Merrill Award for creative writing in 1959 and 1960. McCarthy next went to Chicago, where he worked as an auto mechanic while writing his first novel, The Orchard Keeper.
The Orchard Keeper was published by Random House in 1965; McCarthy's editor there was Albert Erskine, William Faulkner's long-time editor. Before publication, McCarthy received... Read More
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The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2009)
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $14.95
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 >
Also available as a
paperback.
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The Road
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2007
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2007
Price: $14.95
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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Blood Meridian
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 5, 1992
Price: $15.00
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 5, 1992
Price: $15.00
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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All the Pretty Horses
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 29, 1993
Price: $15.00
Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.
The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 29, 1993
Price: $15.00
Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.
The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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No Country for Old Men
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $15.00
In his blistering new 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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $15.00
In his blistering new 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... Read more >
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The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2008)
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $14.95
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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The Crossing
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: March 14, 1995
Price: $15.00
In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy 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 a lost American myth.
In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: March 14, 1995
Price: $15.00
In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy 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 a lost American myth.
In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Suttree
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 5, 1992
Price: $15.00
By the author of Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, 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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 5, 1992
Price: $15.00
By the author of Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, 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... Read more >
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Child of God
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 29, 1993
Price: $14.00
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 29, 1993
Price: $14.00
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance. Read more >
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The Border Trilogy
Format: Hardcover, 1040 pages
On Sale: September 28, 1999
Price: $36.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 1040 pages
On Sale: September 28, 1999
Price: $36.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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... Read more >
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Cities of the Plain
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 25, 1999
Price: $15.00
In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier.
The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 25, 1999
Price: $15.00
In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier.
The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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No Country for Old Men (Movie Tie In Edition)
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $15.00
In No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $15.00
In No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. Read more >
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The Road
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $24.95
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. The sky is dark. Their... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Price: $24.95
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. The sky is dark. Their... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Outer Dark
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 29, 1993
Price: $14.00
Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, 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 her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 29, 1993
Price: $14.00
Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, 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 her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie... Read more >
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Blood Meridian
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2001
Price: $22.95
"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 >
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2001
Price: $22.95
"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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Orchard Keeper
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 2, 1993
Price: $14.00
An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America's finest, most celebrated novelists. Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 2, 1993
Price: $14.00
An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America's finest, most celebrated novelists. Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who... Read more >
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All the Pretty Horses
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: April 21, 1992
Price: $29.95
Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.
The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: April 21, 1992
Price: $29.95
Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.
The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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No Country for Old Men
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: July 19, 2005
Price: $26.95
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: July 19, 2005
Price: $26.95
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 >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Sunset Limited
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $13.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $13.95
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 Stonemason
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $12.95
From a writer hailed as an American original -- and the author of the national bestsellers All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing -- comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an African American family.
The setting is Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s. The Telfairs are stonemasons and have... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1995
Price: $12.95
From a writer hailed as an American original -- and the author of the national bestsellers All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing -- comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an African American family.
The setting is Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s. The Telfairs are stonemasons and have... Read more >
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Cities of the Plain
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1998
Price: $28.95
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 already changed beyond recognition.
In the fall of 1952... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1998
Price: $28.95
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 already changed beyond recognition.
In the fall of 1952... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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La carretera
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
Un padre y su hijo caminan solos por una América devastada. Nada se mueve en el paisaje quemado salvo cenizas en el viento. El cielo es oscuro, la nieve gris, y el frío es capaz de romper las rocas. Su destino es la costa, aunque no saben qué, si algo, les... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
Un padre y su hijo caminan solos por una América devastada. Nada se mueve en el paisaje quemado salvo cenizas en el viento. El cielo es oscuro, la nieve gris, y el frío es capaz de romper las rocas. Su destino es la costa, aunque no saben qué, si algo, les... Read more >
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The Cormac McCarthy Value Collection
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 23, 2005
Price: $34.95
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES
The first volume of the 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, he sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where... Read more >
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 23, 2005
Price: $34.95
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES
The first volume of the 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, he sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where... Read more >
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The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2009)
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $7.99
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 >
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $7.99
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Crossing
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: June 7, 1994
Price: $29.95
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought.
In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: June 7, 1994
Price: $29.95
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought.
In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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