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No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy · 2005

Literary Fiction · ranked #42 in category

A hunter finds a suitcase of drug money in the Texan desert and takes it, setting in motion a pursuit by the unstoppable killer Anton Chigurh. McCarthy's lean, violent novel is a meditation on fate, violence and the sense that the world has become too brutal for the old codes of honour to survive in.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2005 · 2000s
Author
Cormac McCarthy
Standing
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