Cormac McCarthy¿s first novel in more than a decade. von McCarthy, Cormac

"Pass Christian, Mississippi, 1980: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips up the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from a Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still...

Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is an early classic from one of America's finest and most celebrated authors. It tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy,...

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...

Cormac McCarthy¿s first novel in more than a decade. von McCarthy, Cormac

"All die schönen Pferde" ist der erste Band der Border-Trilogie von Cormac McCarthy, nicht Hans Wolf. Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte des 16-jährigen John Grady Cole, der in den späten 1940er Jahren nach dem Tod seines Großvaters und...

The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian is an epic and potent...

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...

Suttree is a compelling, semi-autobiographical novel by Cormac McCarthy, which has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville....

"Cities of the Plain" ist der dritte und letzte Band von Cormac McCarthys "Border Trilogy". Das Buch spielt in den späten 1940er und frühen 1950er Jahren und folgt den Geschichten von John Grady Cole und Billy Parham, zwei Cowboys, die...

Herbst 1952: John Grady Cole arbeitet auf einer Ranch bei Al Paso. In den Nachtbars und Bordellen hinter der mexikanischen Grenze findet er die Frau seines Lebens: Magdalena, eine schöne Hure, zart und zerbrechlich. Doch sie gehört...

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 of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life...