Blogs in September 2022

The Passenger 6th September 2022

In his first book since winning the Pulitzer Prizer for The Road sixteen years ago, Cormac McCarthy returns with the first book in a two-part series. In Mississippi in 1980, Bobby Western dives into the ocean to investigate a...

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All the Pretty Horses 8th July 2020

John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third...

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The Crossing 8th July 2020

The Crossing forms second part of Cormac McCarthy’s critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, that began with All the Pretty Horses and concludes with The Cities of the Plain. Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World...

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Blood Meridian 9th February 2020

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that...

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The Road 14th May 2014

Set in a post-apocalyptic future where an unknown disaster has decimated the earth, a man and his young son make their way across America, scavenging and plundering to stay alive.

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