6/29/2023 0 Comments Cormac mccarthy no country![]() Within a page, Chigurh runs loose in the world once again. Looming large in the first scene is a murderous sociopath named Anton Chigurh, a killer for hire without a conscience, who's turned himself in to a sheriff's department just to see if he can make his escape. Like the novels in the border trilogy, this story straddles the Texas-Mexico line and its still extraordinary, beautiful desert as one of McCarthy's characters, a meditative sheriff named Bell, sees it: `The raw rock mountain, shadowed in the late sun, and to the east the shimmering abscissa of the desert plains under a sky where rain curtains hung dark as soot all along the quadrant.'īut the meditative opening sequence from the point of view of Sheriff Bell hints more at hopelessness than hope. Alan Cheuse has a review of "No Country for Old Men." ![]() Writer Cormac McCarthy has a new book out, the first since the completion of his border trilogy. ![]()
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