the occupation of Iraq and the daily killings and torture that we simultaneously support and strive to ignore."]
When Rosenbaum says the only way he can account for the critical response to "No Country for Old Men" (and " The Silence of the Lambs" before it) is to assume it's "because it strokes some ideological impulse," I believe he means what he says even though I don't know what he thinks he's trying to say. Here's where I agree with Jonathan Rosenbaum on the Coen brothers' new movie: 1) it is based on a ("minor") novel by Cormac McCarthy 2) it is a very well-made genre picture and 3) Rosenbaum does not understand why it has been accorded so much importance. "Adapted from what is generally considered a minor Cormac McCarthy novel, 'No Country for Old Men' is a very well-made genre exercise, but I can’t understand why it’s been accorded so much importance, unless it’s because it strokes some ideological impulse." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Something dark and shapeless approaches in " No Country for Old Men." Set along the familiar bloody frontier of the Border Trilogy, No Country For Old Men portrays a time when drug agents and hit men rule the land. McCarthy's eagerly anticipated new novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris, will be published by Picador in October 2022. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?This edition is part of the Picador Collection, a new list of the best in contemporary literature published in Picador's 50th Anniversary year. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. 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 the money and run.
Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, No Country For Old Men is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road.Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong.
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