New Releases by Cormac McCarthy

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road • An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. "The richest and strongest work of McCarthy’s career…An achievement greater than Blood Meridian…or…The Road.” —The Atlantic 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she recalls a childhood where, by the age of seven, her own grandmother feared for her; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, not quite dead, not quite hers. Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia’s psychiatric sessions, Stella Maris is a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda to The Passenger, a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.

La storia di una salvezza impossibile. Un''opera di disperata bellezza e apicale bravura. Nel cuore di una fredda notte del 1980, Bobby Western indossa la sua muta da sommozzatore e si tuffa nelle nere profondità della baia del Mississippi. Laggiú scorge il profilo di un aereo con nove corpi in cabina, gli occhi vuoti e le braccia protese verso un gelido abbraccio. Che fine ha fatto il fantomatico decimo passeggero? Quali oscure macchinazioni cela la sua scomparsa? Dolente viandante del mondo da sempre braccato dalla perdita e dalla colpa, ora Bobby deve tornare a fuggire, inseguendo la libertà e il ricordo di una donna per sempre irraggiungibile. «Un romanzo capace di inchiodarci alla pagina come un thriller e allo stesso tempo di sollevare questioni fondamentali, facendoci interrogare sulla nostra natura, di piú: sulla nostra (in)capacità di comprendere il mistero stesso della vita». Giuseppe Culicchia, «tuttolibri - La Stampa» «L''inconscio è piú antico del linguaggio. Molto piú antico. È un concetto su cui Cormac McCarthy torna spesso. Il passeggero è un libro splendido, e a questo tipo di riflessione deve molto». Nicola Lagioia, «Lucy» «Un libro sugli amori che non si arrendono alla memoria. Un libro di McCarthy, e di Cormac, le due personalità narrative dell''autore che sfiatano una prosa calcificata nella terra e una ricerca di amore sospesa». Marco Missiroli, «la Lettura - Corriere della Sera»

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The first of a two-volume masterpiece, The Passenger series, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road • 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. A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Blends the rowdy humor of some of McCarthy’s early novels with the parched tone of his more apocalyptic later work." —The New York Times Stella Maris, the second volume in The Passenger series, is available now. 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flight bag, the plane’s black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit—by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul. Traversing the American South, from the garrulous barrooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.

En ung dreng stikker af hjemmefra og slutter sig til John Joel Glantons bande, der i midten af 1800-tallet jager krigsførende apacheindianere på grænsen mellem Texas og Mexico. Snart myrder de også fredelige indianere, mexicanske soldater, uskyldige civile og alle andre, der kommer i vejen. Hurtigt bliver drengen suget ind i en mareridtsagtig verden, hvor vold dominerer, og markedet for indianerskalpe blomstrer. I baggrunden truer den dæmoniske dommer Holden. Han har et barns uskyldige ansigt, ikke et hår på kroppen, en utæmmet tilbøjelighed til vold og en endeløs viden om den verden, han rider hærgende igennem. BLODETS MERIDIAN, Cormac McCarthys hovedværk, baserer sig på virkelige begivenheder under Amerikas ekspansion mod vest.

"En udsøgt litterær fornøjelse og en skræmmende oplevelse (...) Cormac McCarthy-begyndere kan og bør starte hér - hvis ellers de er indstillet på at få ødelagt deres nattesøvn med et mesterligt amerikansk mareridt." - Tonny Worm, Information En far og hans tiårige søn vandrer alene gennem et udbrændt Amerika. Intet rører sig, bortset fra asken i vinden. Det er så koldt, at sten flækker, og når sneen falder, er den grå. Deres mål er kysten, selv om de ikke aner, hvad der venter dem - om noget overhovedet. De har intet med sig, kun en pistol til at forsvare sig mod lovløse bander, det tøj, de har på, en indkøbsvogn med dåsemad - og hinanden. VEJEN er en intens historie om en nådesløs rejse. Den fremmaner en fremtid uden håb, hvor en far og hans søn udholder mareridtet i kraft af deres kærlighed til hinanden.

Ein wort- und bildmächtiger Western. Karg und poetisch zugleich. John Grady Cole arbeitet auf einer Ranch in der Nähe von El 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 Eduardo, dem philosophierenden Zuhälter und Messerhelden. Und Magdalena ist um keinen Preis verkäuflich, es sei denn, um den des Todes. Der abschließende Band der Border-Trilogie.

Um marco da literatura norte-americana, Meridiano de sangue é um épico inesquecível e brutal sobre o Oeste americano — um lugar violento e imprevisível, onde real e imaginário se fundem em uma história com dimensões apocalípticas. Meridiano de sangue é um romance épico. Nele, McCarthy reinventa a mitologia do Oeste americano para criar uma obra ao mesmo tempo grandiosa e arrebatadora sobre uma terra sem lei, em que o absurdo e a alucinação se sobrepõem à realidade. Desde as primeiras páginas, o leitor acompanha um rapaz sem nome e sem família, abandonado à própria sorte num mundo brutal em que, para sobreviver, precisa ser tão ou mais violento que seus inimigos. Recrutado por uma companhia de mercenários a serviço de governantes locais, atravessa regiões desérticas entre o México e o Texas com a missão de matar o maior número possível de índios e trazer de volta seus escalpos. McCarthy parte de fatos reais para compor uma obra que transcende a ficção histórica. Conduzidos por John Joel Glanton e o juiz Holden, homens que julgam já terem visto todos os horrores possíveis, irão aos poucos se aprofundar no verdadeiro inferno. "Um clássico romance americano sobre a regeneração por meio da violência [...]. McCarthy só pode ser comparado aos nossos maiores escritores." — Michael Herr "McCarthy é um autor para ser lido, admirado e, com toda a honestidade, invejado." — Ralph Ellison "Nenhum outro romancista americano vivo, nem mesmo Pynchon, nos deu um livro tão forte e memorável como Meridiano de sangue." — Harold Bloom

‘Wat een prachtig boek. Het knappe van McCarthy is dat hij veel dreiging tussen de regels door laat voelen [...]. Boven alles heeft De weg een geweldige stijl, pakkende personages en genoeg materiaal om een avond lang over te praten.’ – Ionica Smeets in de Volkskrant Nadat er een gloeiende vuurzee over het land is geraasd, doorkruisen een man en zijn zoontje het doodse Amerikaanse landschap. In deze met as bedekte, vergane wereld volgen zij de weg naar het zuiden. Het enige wat hen rest is te overleven in de snijdende kou, zonder elkaar te verliezen. Ze zijn alles voor elkaar. De weg is een bespiegeling over de dunne scheidslijn tussen beschaving en woestenij, en over de alomvattende en soms beangstigende liefde die een kind voor zijn ouders voelt. Een ijzingwekkend meesterwerk.

Cormac McCarthya kauneimmillaan. John Grady on vasta kuudentoista kun kotitila Texasissa myydään ja hän lähtee kaverinsa Rawlinsin kanssa ratsain kohti Meksikoa etsimään uutta elämää. Nuoret miehet kohtaavat matkallaan ihmisen koko raakuuden ja jalouden ja oppivat että liian hyvä hevonen on vaaraksi - mutta ei niin suureksi kuin rakkaus. McCarthyn Rajatrilogian ensimmäisessä osassa tarina kaartuu jylhästi, ja Kaijamari Sivillin suomennos hehkuu samoissa väreissä. Kaikki kauniit hevoset sai Yhdysvaltain National Book Award ja National Book Critics Circle Award -palkinnot ja nosti tekijänsä maailmanmaineeseen. Cormac McCarthy (s. 1933) lukeutuu Yhdysvaltain merkittävimpiin nykykirjailijoihin. Kuudes romaani Kaikki kauniit hevoset (1992) toi hänelle kansainvälistä huomiota, jonka sinetöi Pulitzer-palkinto romaanista Tie vuonna 2007. McCarthy tunnetaan erityisesti etelän rajaseutujen karunkauniin maiseman ja väkivallan leimaaman elämän runollisena kuvaajana.

The first screenplay by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road tells the saga of rival families in post-Civil War South Carolina. Set in Graniteville, South Carolina, The Gardener''s Son is a tale of privilege and hardship, animosity and vengeance. The McEvoys, a poor family beset by misfortune, must work in the cotton mill owned by the Greggs. But when Robert McEvoy loses his leg in an accident—rumored to have been caused by his nemesis, James Gregg—the bitter young man deserts his job and family. Two years later, Robert returns. His mother is dying, and his father, the mill''s gardener, is confined indoors working the factory line. These intertwined events stoke the slow burning rage McEvoy has long carried, a fury that erupts in a terrible act of violence that ultimately consumes the Gregg family and his own. Made into an acclaimed film broadcast on PBS in 1976, The Gardener''s Son received two Emmy Award nominations and was screened at the Berlin and Edinburgh Film Festivals.

«Perché McCarthy è stato spesso paragonato a William Faulkner, a Mark Twain, a Herman Melville? La risposta sta tutta in Oltre il confine : perché al pari di questi autori, scrive magnificamente. Oltre il confine è un miracolo in prosa». «The New York Times Book Review»

El guardián del vergel , la primera novela de Cormac McCarthy, autor de La carretera por la que ganó en 2007 el premio Pulitzer, es ya un clásico de la literatura estadounidense. Situada en una pequeña y remota comunidad rural de Tennessee en el período de entreguerras, nos habla de la vida de John Wesley Rattner, un muchacho, y de Marion Sylder, un vagabundo fuera de la ley que ha matado al padre del chico, aunque ninguno de los dos lo sabe. Ambos, junto a Ather, el tío de Rattner, protagonizarán un drama que parece nacer de las entrañas de la tierra. Reseña: «Una compleja y evocativa reflexión sobre la futilidad de la vida.» Harper''s

*Premio Pulitzer 2007 por La carretera* En la frontera es la segunda parte de la «Trilogía de la Frontera». Billy y Boyd, dos adolecentes de origen campesino, irán descubriendo las duras reglas del mundo de los adultos al tiempo que encuentran en la naturaleza el sentido heroico de sus vidas. Desde una extraña relación de afecto y complicidad con una loba acosada por los tramperos hasta el asesinato de sus padres a manos de unos cuarteros, Bily aprenderá que la belleza y la rapiña moral representan los límites inseparables de una misma aventura vital. Reseña: «Suspense el alma del lector y, al mismo tiempo, lo arrebata en su belleza. » El País

*Premio Pulitzer 2007 por La carretera* Una magnética historia de perdedores, narcotraficantes y sueños rotos, obra del genial autor de la Trilogía de la frontera. El cazador y veterano de Vietnam Llewelyn Moss descubre por casualidad la sangrienta escena de una carnicería entre narcos en algún lugar de la frontera entre Texas y México. Entre los cuerpos y los paquetes de heroína, descubre también algo más de dos millones de dólares. A partir de este momento comienza la violenta carrera de Moss por escapar de los que quieren darle caza: Wells, ex agente de las Fuerzas Especiales contratado por un poderoso cartel; Anton Chigurh, una implacable máquina de matar, para quien recuperar el dinero de sus jefes es apenas la excusa para descargar una y otra vez su arma y poner en práctica su máxima: no dejar nunca testigos, y un sheriff veterano de la segunda guerra mundial que añora los viejos buenos tiempos y esconde un doloroso secreto que lo mantiene vivo. El resultado es una novela que es «mucho más que un thriller corriente» ( Time Magazine) que «te dejará jadeando y atemorizado» Sam Shepard). La crítica ha dicho... «La mezcla de narrativa lírica, diálogo corto y escenas de acción consigue que en No es país para viejos resuenen ecos de Dostoievski, Hemingway y Faulkner.» Alison Block, Booklist «No hay manera de soltar el libro. Es duro, duro e impactante.» El País

Una impresionante e imaginativa fábula moral acerca de la naturaleza de la violencia y la justicia. Una novela épica sobre la violencia y la depravación que acompañaron a la expansión de América hacia el oeste, Meridiano de sangre subvierte espléndidamente las convenciones de la novela occidental y la mitología del “salvaje oeste”. Basada en acontecimientos históricos ocurridos en la frontera de Texas y México alrededor de 1850, traza las fortunas del Chico, un muchacho de Tennessee, que tropieza con el horrible mundo del grupo de Glanton, y su líder espiritual, el llamado juez Holden: un hombre calvo, albino, sin barba, sin pestañas, ni cejas; un hombre violento y cruel que apenas duerme y afirma que jamás morirá.

One of The Atlantic’s “Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years,” now with a new foreword by Marlon James Widely considered one of the finest novels by a living writer, Blood Meridian is an epic tale of the violence and corruption that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the “Wild West.” Its wounded hero, the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean, must confront the extraordinary brutality of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians. Seeming to preside over this nightmarish world is the diabolical Judge Holden, one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian represents a genius vision of the historical West, one whose stature has only grown in the years since its publication.

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • In this taut, chilling story, Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance. "Like the novelists he admires-Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner-Cormac McCarthy has created an imaginative oeuvre greater and deeper than any single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods themselves." —Washington Post

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • A novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is 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.

In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham--nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know--are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north, at Alamogordo, by the military. To the south, always on the horizon are the mountains of Mexico, looming over El Paso, Ciudad Juárez and all the cities of the plain. Bound by nature to horses and cattle and range, these two discover that ranchlife domesticity is compromised, for them and the men they work with, by a geometry of loss afflicting old and young alike, those who have survived it and anyone about to try. And what draws one of them across the border again and again, what would bind "those disparate but fragile worlds," is a girl seized by ill fortune, and a love as dangerous as it is inevitable. This story of friendship and passion is enfolded in a narrative replete with character and place and event--a blind musician, a marauding pack of dogs, curio shops and ancient petroglyphs, a precocious shoe-shine boy, trail drives from the century before, midnight on the highway--and with landforms and wildlife and horses and men, most of all men and the women they love and mourn, men and their persistence and memories and dreams. With the terrible beauty of Cities of the Plain--with its magisterial prose, humor both wry and out-right, fierce conviction and unwavering humanity--Cormac McCarthy has completed a landmark of our literature and times, an epic that reaches from tales of the old west, the world past, into the new millennium, the world to come. Look for Cormac McCarthy''s latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Ens trobem en ple segle XIX al bell mig de la zona fronterera que separa Mèxic dels Estats Units. Les autoritats mexicanes i de l''Estat de Texas organitzen una expedició paramilitar per eliminar el major nombre d''indis possible. És el que s''anomena El Grup Glanton, que té com a líder espiritual el jutge Holden, un home dur, violent i cruel que està convençut de la seva immortalitat. En un moment determinat els carnissers de Glanton decideixen aturar la matança per iniciar un nou extermini: la llei de la selva es comença a imposar. Enmig d''aquest malson, un noi de catorze anys es veurà obligat a enfrontar-se al món.

Esta novela "transcurre en la inmensidad del territorio norteamericano, un paisaje literalmente quemado por lo que parace haber sido un reciente holocausto nuclear. Un padre trata de salvar a su hijo emprendiendo un viaje con él. Rodeados de un paisaje baldío, amenazados por bandas de caníbales, empujando un carrito de la compra donde guardan sus escasas pertenencias, recorren los lugares donde el padre pasó una infancia recordada a veces en forma de breves bocetos del paraíso perdido, y avanzan hacia el sur, hacia el mar, huyendo de un frío ''capaz de romper las rocas.''"--Page 4 of cover.

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 boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilised; a place where dreams are paid for in blood. All the Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story. Winner of National Book for Book Fiction 1992

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity

From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road—a startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment, “Black” and “White,” as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing world views. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men–though he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is desperate to deny it. Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life. Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted, consistently thought-provoking, and deceptively intimate work by one of the most insightful writers of our time. Look for Cormac McCarthy''s new novel, The Passenger, coming October ''22.

Stumbling upon a bloody massacre, a cache of heroin, and more than two million in cash during a hunting trip, Llewelyn Moss removes the money, a decision that draws him and his young wife into the middle of a violent confrontation.

THE STORY: On a subway platform in New York City, an ex-con from the South saves the life of an intellectual atheist who wasn''t looking for salvation. Now, the reformed murderer-turned-savior ventures to offer salvation of another kind, bringing the faile

Una de las voces de la narrativa norteamericana que, con esta novela, cierra la trilogía de la frontera. El escenario: los años cincuenta, en tierra fronterizas entre EE. UU y México. Allí, un grupo de personajes desarraigados, protagonistas de las dos primeras entregas viven el desencuentro con ellos mismos y con la nueva época que se avecina