No Country for Old Men (Vintage International)

By Cormac McCarthy

In No state for previous Men, Cormac McCarthy concurrently strips down the yankee crime novel and broadens its issues to surround issues as historic because the Bible and as bloodily modern as this morning’s headlines.

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