Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2196 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

The Independent Extra
'Few writers have captured the grandeur and cruelty of the American frontier more vividly than Cormac McCarthy...'

Daily Telegraph
'The Coen brothers storm back to form with a nail-bitingly tense adaption of Cormac McCarthy's Tex-Mex thriller'

Daily Express
'...Javier Bardem is an Oscar contender for his chilling performance as an assassin having a very bad hair day'

Customer Reviews

My book of the year.
I loved this book. I enjoyed it so much that I didn`t see the movie. This is America`s top modern author, no question. He just gets better.He understands the human condition when set against a bleak or rugged backcloth, he writes so well.

Worst book ever
What starts out a promising & exciting story, completely falls apart in the final few chapters. I was so disappointed with this that I threw it in the bin when I finished it (and I have been collecting books all my life). Avoid

Very confusing
I'm sure this is an exciting novel if you can cope with the style, but I found it very confusing. McCarthy shares a characterstic with Gerald Seymour in that he will write several paragraphs or even pages without saying whom he is writing about (ie he uses personal pronouns rather than names). For me, Seymour gets away with it - just - but in this book it simply serves to complicate a plot which is quite complicated enough. I found this disappointing, because I think that otherwise I might well have enjoyed the novel. As it was, it left me confused, and unsure as to exactly what happened at the end.