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• The Passenger

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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  The story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.

• No Country for Old Men

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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  Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it, or cut…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stella Maris

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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  Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence.

• The Road

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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  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 destination is the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blood Meridian, Or, The Evening Redness in the West

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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  Chronicling the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang. Loosely based on fact, the novel represents a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Suttree

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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  Cornelius Suttree renounces the values held by his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat among the depraved residents on the banks of the Tennessee River.

• All the Pretty Horses

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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  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 he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Crossing

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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  In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on the cusp of unimaginable events. First comes a trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gardener's Son

  a Screenplay

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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  A taut, riveting intergenerational drama of fathers and sons, power, inequality, rage, and violence set in post-Civil War South Carolina.

• The Counselor

  a Screenplay

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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  Along the gritty terrain of the Texas-Mexico border, a respected and recently engaged lawyer throws his stakes into a cocaine trade worth millions. His hope is that it will be a one-time deal and that, afterward, he can settle into life…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Stonemason

  a Play in Five Acts

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Orchard Keeper

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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  A boy, a man, and an old man reflect the conflicts and problems of life in a small community in East Tennessee at the turn of the century.

• Outer Dark

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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  In the rural South a woman bears her brother's child, and when he leaves it in the woods to die, she sets out alone to find her son.