{"product_id":"no-country-for-old-men","title":"No Country for Old Men","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished in 2005, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo Country for Old Men\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e begins when Llewelyn Moss, hunting in the parched country along the Texas–Mexico border, comes upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone violently wrong. Among the bodies are a cache of heroin and more than two million dollars in cash; Moss takes the money, setting in motion a relentless pursuit by Anton Chigurh, a chillingly methodical killer. As the violence spreads, ageing Sheriff Ed Tom Bell follows the trail, increasingly troubled by a world whose brutality seems beyond his understanding.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart crime thriller, part modern Western, McCarthy’s novel is also a searching meditation on fate, conscience, violence and the passing of an older moral order. Its terse dialogue and stark desert landscapes give the story an almost biblical severity, while Sheriff Bell’s reflections lend it a profound melancholy. A gripping and unsettling work, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo Country for Old Men\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings the traditions of the Western into the contemporary world with devastating force.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Cormac McCarthy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo Country for Old Men\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo Country for Old Men\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered. The most accessible of all his works.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— The Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64193199898954,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/products\/no-country-for-old-men","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}