Cormac McCarthy NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN Knopf 2005 1st/1st HC/DJ Basis For Film

Description: McCarthy, Cormac. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. NY: Knopf, 2005. 1st edition. With “First Edition” printed on the copyright page, which indicates that this is the correct 1st edition, 1st printing. This is NOT a book club book. This is NOT an ex-library book. Buyer beware: there were multiple later printings of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN that were published in this exact format. This is the real deal: the correct 1st edition, 1st printing. SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE IMMEDIATELY TO SEE THE CONDITION OF THIS BOOK AND THIS DUST JACKET. Cormac McCarthy was born in 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island, but was raised primarily in Tennessee. He died in June of 2023 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was (and remains) one of the best, most famous, and best-selling fiction writers of the late 20th century and into the 21st century. He was know for his graphic depictions of violence and his unique writing style, recognizable by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution. McCarthy enrolled in the University of Tennessee, but dropped to join the U.S. Air Force. He first novel, THE ORCHARD KEEPER, was published in 1965. He was awarded some literary grants, which allowed him to travel to southern Europe, where he wrote his second novel, OUTER DARK, in 1968. In 1981 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship worth $236,000 which let him travel to the American Southwest, where he researched and wrote his fifth novel, BLOOD MERIDIAN. It has since been regarded as his magnum opus. In a 2006 poll of authors and publishers conducted by The New York Times Magazine to list the greatest American novels of the previous quarter-century, BLOOD MERIDIAN place third, behind Toni Morrison's BELOVED and Don DeLillo's UNDERWORLD. In 1992 McCarthy received more widespread attention when ALL THE PRETTY HORSES won the National Book Award. It was followed by THE CROSSING and CITIES OF THE PLAIN, which completed the "Border Trilogy." McCarthy's novel NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN was published in 2005. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN was adapted by the Coen brothers into a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards. McCarthy's THE ROAD, a post-apocalypse novel, was published in 2006. McCarthy was the author of such great and famous books as THE ORCHARD KEEPER, OUTER DARK, CHILD OF GOD, SUTTREE, BLOOD MERIDIAN, ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, THE CROSSING, CITIES OF THE PLAIN, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (offered here), THE ROAD, some short fiction and some screenplays. Some of the awards and award nominations that Cormac McCarthy has been honored with: 1959: Cormac McCarthy is the Ingram-Merrill Award winner. 1960: Cormac McCarthy is the Ingram-Merrill Award winner. 1965: THE ORCHARD KEEPER. Faulkner Prize Award winner for Best First Novel. 1965: Cormac McCarthy is awarded the Traveling Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 1969: Cormac McCarthy is awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Writing. 1981: Cormac McCarthy is awarded the MacArthur Fellowship. 1985: BLOOD MERIDIAN. In Time Magazine’s list of the 100 Best English-language books published between 1923 and 2005. 1992: ALL THE PRETTY HORSES. National Book Award winner for Fiction. 1992: ALL THE PRETTY HORSES. National Book Critics Circle Award winner. 1997: Cormac McCarthy is awarded the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse H. Jones Award. 1997: Cormac McCarthy is honored by being named a Lon Tinkle Lifetime Achievement Award winner. 2006: BLOOD MERIDIAN. New York Times co-runner-up of the Best American Fiction Published in the last 25 years. 2006: THE ROAD. James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner for Fiction. 2006: THE ROAD. Believer Book Award winner. 2007: THE ROAD. Pulitzer Prize Award winner for Fiction. 2007: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN serves as the basis for Coen Brothers' film entitled "No Country For Old Men." The film won the Scree Actors Guild Award Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The film also won four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor. 2008: THE ROAD. Premio Ignotus Award winner. 2008: THE ROAD. PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, for a career whose writing “possessed qualities of excellence, ambition, and scale of achievement over a sustained career which place him or her in the highest rank of American literature.” 2012: THE ROAD. Best of the James Tait Black, shortlist. Clearly Cormac McCarthy was (and remains) one of the best, most famous, most important, and most collectible writers in the world. From the dust jacket: “ . . . Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy's first novel since CITIES OF THE PLAIN completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy . . . Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead fins men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash., Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim's burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes how desperately Moss and his young wife need protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex-Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches up and down and across the border, each participant seemingly determined to answer what one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? . . . A harrowing story of a war that society is waging on itself, and an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is a novel of extraordinary resonance and power . . . " From the rear flap of the dust jacket: " . . . CORMAC McCARTHY is the author of eight previous novels, and among his honors are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award . . . " From the rear panel of the dust jacket: ACCLAIM FOR CORMAC McCARTHY WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD "McCarthy has a voice that is unmistakably and torrentially his . . . -- Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe "The deity that presides over Mr. McCarthy's world has not modeled itself on humanity . . . " -- Madison Smartt Bell, The New York Times Book Review "McCarthy meditates on creation . . . He sweeps everything into profound animation . . . We experience a more vivid and consequential feeling about human destiny . . . " -- Sven Birkerts, The New Republic "McCarthy has created an imaginative oeuvre greater and deeper than any single book . . . " -- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World "McCarthy's . . . Fiction is heroic and somber, awe-inspiring and ruefully comic . . . " -- Lacy Hughes Hallett, The Sunday Times (London) "With each book, he expands the territory of American fiction." -- Malcolm Jones, Newsweek ________________________________________________________________________________________ CONDITION: A near FINE book in a near FINE dust jacket. The book is very tight and square in its black boards binding with gilt lettering on the spine of the book. This actually may be an unread copy of this book. There is no writing in the book; no bookplates; no remainder marks. The corners of the book are not bumped. The bottom of the spine shows it has been sitting on the shelf. The book is still FINE overall. The dust jacket is NOT price-clipped and shows the correct 1st issue price of $24.95. Essentially the dust jacket is in almost perfect condition with slight white showing on the edges at the corners. The famous dust jacket design is by Chip Kidd. This is about as nice a 1st edition copy of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN as one could be expected to find. A MUST FOR THE COLLECTOR OF IMPORTANT MODERN FICTION 1st EDITIONS AND/OR AND OR THE COLLECTOR OF BOOKS TURNED INTO FILMS 1st EDITIONS AND/OR THE COLLECTOR OF CORMAC McCARTHY 1st EDITIONS!

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