The Road. Collection Edition

Two men marked by boyhood adventures now stand together, forced to confront a country changing beyond recognition. Cities of the Plain brings Cormac McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy to its brutal, inevitable conclusion.<BR><BR>'The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' - Guardian<BR><BR>1952, New Mexico. John Grady Cole, last seen in All the Pretty Horses, works as a ranch hands alongside Billy Parnham, of The Crossing. These are the dying days of the American frontier.<BR><BR>From the north, the military encroaches upon the ranch. To the south are the mountains of Mexico, the pull of which prove irresistible to John Grady. And so it is that, when he falls in love with a sex worker south of the border, events are set into motion that will prove as dangerous as they are unstoppable.<BR><BR>'This haunting, deeply felt novel completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990s' - Telegraph<BR><BR>'Like a slow-acting hallucinogen, the book has managed to transform a Texas boy of sixteen looking for adventure into a mysterious figure that augurs the destruction of the world' - Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room<BR><BR>Cities of the Plain is the final novel in the Border Trilogy. It is preceded by the first two volumes: All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing.<BR><BR>Praise for Cormac McCarthy<BR><BR>'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren<BR><BR>'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series<BR><BR>'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain<BR><BR>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

Sechzehn Jahre nach seinem Weltbestseller Die Straße kehrt Pulitzer-Preisträger Cormac McCarthy zurück mit seinem zweibändigen Meisterwerk. Der Passagier und Stella Maris:Zwei Romane ohne Vorbild. Die Wahrheit des einen negiert die des anderen.1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, zwanzig Jahre alt, lässt sich mit vierzigtausend Dollar in einer Plastiktüte und einem manifesten Todeswunsch in die Psychiatrie einweisen. Die Diagnose der genialen jungen Mathematikerin und virtuosen Violinistin: paranoide Schizophrenie. Über ihren Bruder Bobby spricht sie nicht. Stattdessen denkt sie über Wahnsinn nach, über das menschliche Beharren auf einer gemeinsamen Welterfahrung, über ihre Kindheit, in der ihre Großmutter um sie fürchtete - oder sie fürchtete? Alicias Denken kreist um die Schnittstellen zwischen Physik, Philosophie, Kunst, um das Wesen der Sprache. Und sie ringt mit ihren selbstgerufenen Geistern, grotesken Chimären, die nur sie sehen und hören kann. Die Protokolle der Gespräche mit ihrem Psychiater zeigen ein Genie, das an der Unüberwindbarkeit der Erkenntnisgrenzen wahnsinnig wird, weder im Reich des Spirituellen noch in einer unmöglichen Liebe Erlösung findet und unsere Vorstellungen von Gott, Wahrheit und Existenz radikal infrage stellt.

FEATURED ON A GREAT BOOK WITH BARACK OBAMA<BR><BR>'One of the greatest American novels of this or any time' GUARDIAN<BR><BR>A coming-of-age western and a grand love story, All the Pretty Horses is a classic of American literature and the first instalment in Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed Border Trilogy.<BR><BR>1949. At sixteen years-old, 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 civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood.<BR><BR>A classic of American literature and a grand love story, Cormac McCarthy's novel is about the passing of childhood, of innocence and a vanished American age.<BR><BR>Adapted into a film starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz.<BR><BR>All the Pretty Horses is followed in the Border Trilogy by The Crossing and Cities of the Plain.<BR><BR>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.<BR><BR>A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.<BR><BR>The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.<BR><BR>Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

"Dieses Epos ist Weltliteratur." (Tempo)Billy Parham und sein Bruder Boyd überschreiten noch einmal die Grenze nach Mexiko. Sie sind auf der Suche nach gestohlenen Pferden und den Mördern ihrer Eltern. Abenteuer in der Wildnis, Leben am Rand der Zivilisation - Cormac McCarthys überwältigender Roman ist ein apokalyptisches Epos über die Liebe, den Tod und die Suche nach Identität.Band zwei der Border-Trilogie.

A profound exploration of the nature of reality and the human mind, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road and No Country for Old Men. <BR><BR>'A drought-busting, brain-vexing double act' - Guardian<BR><BR>Alicia Western is the following: Twenty years old. A brilliant mathematician at the University of Chicago. And a paranoid schizophrenic who does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby.<BR><BR>Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia's psychiatric sessions, Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris is a moving companion to The Passenger. It is a powerful enquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and life itself.<BR><BR>'Cormac McCarthy was such a virtuoso, his language was so rich and new . . . his books were terrifying and absolute. His sentences were astonishing.' - Anne Enright

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. <BR><BR>The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain.<BR><BR>As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines.<BR><BR>No Country for Old Men is a triumph.

A haunting tale of guilt and redemption, Cormac McCarthy's gothic masterpiece Outer Dark follows a brother and sister on a dark journey through the Appalachian wilderness.<BR><BR>'A profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society in any time' - Time<BR><BR>In an unspecified place in Appalachia, a woman named Rinthy gives birth to her brother's child.<BR><BR>The brother, Culla, abandons the baby in the woods, and tells Rinthy that he has died by natural causes. When she sees his grave empty, she sets forth alone to find her son.<BR><BR>Wracked by sin, Culla too leaves for the countryside. He will be haunted by The Trio, punishers and murderers, as the novel moves towards its eerie, apocalyptic resolution.<BR><BR>Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.<BR><BR>Praise for Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road and No Country for Old Men:<BR><BR>'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren<BR><BR>'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series<BR><BR>'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain