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6 books that 1 of America's Greatest Ever Novelist's wrote. All books are in GOOD to VERY Good Condition
BLOOD MERIDIAN, or the Evening Redness in the West (1985) The book has grown appreciably in stature in literary circles; in a 2006 poll of authors and publishers, by The New York Times Magazine, to list the greatest American novels of the previous quarter-century, it placed third.
"The Border Trilogy" ALL THE PRETTY HORSES (1992) Won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Was made into a 2000 film directed by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz
THE CROSSING (1994) Is a coming-of-age novel set on the border between the southwest United States and Mexico. It takes place before and during the 2nd World War and focuses on the life of the protagonist Billy Parham, a teenage cowboy; his family; and his younger brother Boyd.
CITIES OF THE PLAIN(1998) Is the final volume of McCarthy's "Border Trilogy", published in 1998. The title is a reference to Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:29. It returns to the two main characters from All The Pretty Horses and The Crossing.
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2005) Was originally conceived as a screenplay before being turned into a novel. It stayed with the western setting and themes yet moved to a more contemporary period. The Coen brothers adapted it into a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards and more than 75 film awards globally.
THE ROAD (2006) A post-apocalyptic tale of a journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape, blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed most of civilization and, in the intervening years, almost all life on Earth. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006. The book was adapted to a film of the same name in 2009, directed by John Hillcoat.
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