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McCarthy, Cormac 1933-
Most widely held works about
Cormac McCarthy
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Most widely held works by
Cormac McCarthy
The road by Cormac McCarthy (
Book
)
131
editions published
between
2006
and
2011
in
19
languages
and held by
5,377
libraries
worldwide
In this postapocalyptic novel, 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 destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food--and each other. This book boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. It is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.--From publisher description.
All the pretty horses by Cormac McCarthy (
Book
)
163
editions published
between
1992
and
2011
in
20
languages
and held by
4,646
libraries
worldwide
Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.
No country for old men by Cormac McCarthy (
Book
)
109
editions published
between
1984
and
2011
in
17
languages
and held by
4,225
libraries
worldwide
Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Texas/Mexico border when he stumbles upon several dead men, a big stash of heroin, and more than two million dollars in cash. He takes off with the money--and the hunter becomes the hunted. A drug cartel hires a former Special Forces agent to track down the loot, and a ruthless killer joins the chase as well. Also looking for Moss is the aging Sheriff Bell, a World War II veteran who may be Moss' only hope for survival.
Cities of the plain by Cormac McCarthy (
Book
)
71
editions published
between
1997
and
2011
in
9
languages
and held by
3,738
libraries
worldwide
A Texas cowboy falls in love with a Mexican prostitute, only to discover he has a rival, her pimp. The pimp refuses to let her go because he will lose money and the stage is set for a violent confrontation.
The crossing by Cormac McCarthy (
Book
)
75
editions published
between
1983
and
2010
in
12
languages
and held by
3,738
libraries
worldwide
In the 1930s, two teenage brothers whose ranch in New Mexico was raided by bandits, cross into Mexico to search for stolen horses. The novel follows them through the revolution-torn countryside, meeting soldiers, peasants, priests and thieves, all proffering advice. By the author of All the pretty horses.
Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (
Book
)
62
editions published
between
1985
and
2011
in
8
languages
and held by
2,655
libraries
worldwide
Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of desperados, with a particular focus on one, "the kid," a boy of fourteen.
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy (
Book
)
47
editions published
between
1979
and
2010
in
6
languages
and held by
1,714
libraries
worldwide
The story or 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 - he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.
The orchard keeper by Cormac McCarthy (
Book
)
41
editions published
between
1965
and
2010
in
5
languages
and held by
1,411
libraries
worldwide
Tells the story of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy living in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed John's father.
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy (
Book
)
44
editions published
between
1973
and
2010
in
7
languages
and held by
1,359
libraries
worldwide
Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard is released from jail, and a trip to the dry-goods store, an errand to the blacksmith, and other incidents are transformed into scenes of the comic and the grotesque.
Outer dark by Cormac McCarthy (
Book
)
41
editions published
between
1968
and
2011
in
7
languages
and held by
1,315
libraries
worldwide
This stark novel is set in 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, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution.
The Sunset Limited a novel in dramatic form by Cormac McCarthy (
Book
)
16
editions published
between
2006
and
2011
in
English
and held by
1,230
libraries
worldwide
An encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. The two men begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing worldviews.
All the pretty horses(
visu
)
18
editions published
between
1994
and
2001
in
3
languages
and held by
1,193
libraries
worldwide
John Grady Cole (Damon) and his best friend Lacey Rawlins (Thomas) leave Texas, head south of the border in search of adventure, and find work as horse wranglers. But when Cole embarks on an illicit and passionate affair with the beautiful daughter (Cruz) of the wealthy ranch owner who is his employer, events are set in motion which forever change the lives of all involved.
The border trilogy by Cormac McCarthy (
Book
)
67
editions published
between
1992
and
2008
in
4
languages
and held by
811
libraries
worldwide
Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling trio of novels, The Border Trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time, constitutes a genuine American epic. The young men in these novels come of age on southwestern ranches in the 1930s, while across the border Mexico beckons them with its desolate beauty and the cruel promise of a place where a dreams are paid for in blood
Blood meridian, [or, the evening redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (
Sound Recording
)
24
editions published
between
1985
and
2010
in
5
languages
and held by
784
libraries
worldwide
His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path toward destiny, he witnesses unknown horrors and suffering--and yet, as if shielded by the almighty hand of God, he survives to breathe another day.
The stonemason : a play in five acts by Cormac McCarthy (
Book
)
16
editions published
between
1994
and
1997
in
English
and held by
722
libraries
worldwide
The Stonemason is a profoundly moving drama set in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1970s, concerning several generations of a black family. McCarthy's narrator, Ben, reveals a painful episode in his family's history, grounding us at the same time in the beautiful dynamic between him and his grandfather, Papaw. Ben, Ben's father, and Papaw are all stonemasons, but in descriptions of "the trade" we learn as much about this family's capacity for love as we do about constructing sound foundations for houses, barns and bridges. Papaw's knowledge about stonemasonry is analogous to his deep spiritual wisdom, and Ben recognizes both as he looks back on his apprenticeship in the "trade at which I thought myself a master and of which I stood in darkest ignorance. And as I came to know him...As I came to know him...Oh I could hardly believe my good fortune. I swore then I'd cleave to that old man like a bride. I swore he'd take nothing to his grave.".
The Gardener's son : a screenplay by Cormac McCarthy (
Book
)
6
editions published
in
1996
in
English
and held by
370
libraries
worldwide
James Drake by James Drake (
Book
)
2
editions published
between
2008
and
2009
in
English
and held by
202
libraries
worldwide
"James Drake has explored political, social, and universal themes through the media of sculpture, video, installation, photography, and drawing. James Drake, the first monograph devoted to the artist, surveys thirty-five years of Drake's work up to 2007." "Many of the works reproduced in James Drake reflect the artist's preoccupation with borders. Some have to do with the political border between the United States and Mexico and the inherent social and psychological tensions of people living in its extreme and unique environment. Other works explore the internal boundaries that people experience as a result of attitudes, prejudices, power, control, and arrogance. Jimmy Santiago Baca's narrative poem Huitzilopochtli, a personal response to Drake's work, provides a verbal counterpart to the artist's theme of border-crossing." "Another prominent subject in Drake's work is the relationship of people and animals - in particular, the animality that always lurks in human behavior. In his essay "Between Animality and Man," critic Steven Henry Madoff traces this subject through Drake's work and shows how Drake uses it to contrast the forces of intellect and instinct, light and darkness." "Interspersed among the color plates are quotations from writers as varied as Cormac McCarthy and Dante. Also accompanying the plates and essays is an introduction by Bruce W. Ferguson, a nationally known art curator, educator, and critic, that places Drake's work in an art historical context. Lists of James Drake's works, exhibitions, public collections, and awards, as well as a bibliography of works about Drake, complete this first retrospective of the oeuvre of this major, socially concerned artist, who always "tries to make work as exciting, powerful, and thought-provoking as possible.""--BOOK JACKET.
The Cormac McCarthy collection by Cormac McCarthy (
Sound Recording
)
5
editions published
between
1998
and
2005
in
English
and held by
145
libraries
worldwide
A collection featuring the three volumes of the Border Trilogy evokes the mythic spendor and majesty of America's Old West.
The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy (
Sound Recording
)
6
editions published
between
2006
and
2011
in
English
and held by
126
libraries
worldwide
An encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. The two men begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing worldviews.
No country for old men(
visu
)
17
editions published
between
2007
and
2010
in
5
languages
and held by
43
libraries
worldwide
Nadat een jager vlakbij de Rio Grande enkele lijken, heroïne en meer dan twee miljoen dollar aan contant geld ontdekt, komt hij terecht in een benarde situatie waarin de overlevenden van de verkeerd gelopen drugsdeal jacht op hem maken.
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Mac Carthy, Cormac
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MacCarthy, Cormac
MacCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
MacCarthy, Cormac 1933- RAK-WB § 316, Abs. 1
Makarti, Kormark, 1933-
Mc Carthy, Cormac
Mc Carthy, Cormac 1933-....
Mc Carthy, Cormac 1933- RAK-WB § 316, Abs. 2
McCarthy, Charles.
McCarthy, Charles J. 1933-
McCarthy, Charles Joseph Junior 1933- Dict. of literary biography, Bd. 143
McCarthy, Cormac
מקארתי, קורמאק, 1933-
מקארתי, קורמאק
Маккати, Кормак
麦卡锡, 戈马克
Маккарти, Кормак
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