The Crossing

Author: Cormac McCarthy

The second of Cormac MacCarthy’s Border trilogy, The Crossing continues the story of All the Pretty Horses…..Read More

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Shadow Country

2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERPeter Matthiessen’s great American epic–Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone–was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Family Life Fiction, Fiction, Florida Everglades

Underworld

While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Executives, Fiction, History, Literary Fiction

All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Across the border Mexico beckons—beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized.… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, General, Texas, United States

The Orchard Keeper

The Orchard Keeper' tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father. Continue Reading Posted in: Censorship & Politics, Classic Coming of Age Fiction, English Fiction, Psychological Fiction, United States

Suttree

This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Family Saga Fiction, Fiction, Psychology, United States Tennessee River

Lonesome Dove

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Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels

When we first met him in Rabbit, Run (1960), the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with some boys in an… Continue Reading Posted in: American, American Literature, Poetry, Psychological Fiction, Self-Help & Psychology Humor

The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain

Beginning with All the Pretty Horses and continuing through The Crossing and Cities of the Plain, McCarthy chronicles the lives of two young men coming of age in the Southwest… Continue Reading Posted in: Adventure Stories, American, Coming of Age Fiction, Historical Fiction, North America Mexican American Border Region, Teen & Young Adult Classic Literature

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“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul,… Continue Reading Posted in: 1897 1962, Afroamerikanische Historische Romane, Faulkner, Small Town & Rural Fiction, Social Life And Customs, Southern States, William

No Country For Old Men

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, has made a grim discovery - a load of heroin, $2 million in cash and a lot of dead bodies. But when… Continue Reading Posted in: Fictional Works, Suspense Fiction, Treasure Troves

Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Fiction In English, Glanton Gang, United States

The Road

A searing, post apocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on… Continue Reading Posted in: Dystopias, Fiction, Survival

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