title: No Country for Old Men: From Novel to Film
author: Lynnea Chapman King
description: <span><span><span>A one-stop learning opportunity, this comprehensive, enlightening, cohesive compilation covers a range of topics. ... Recommended.</span></span></span> (<i>CHOICE, March 2010</i>)<br /><br />These essays are engagingly writtendemonstrating that criticism centering on the author's perceived intention is alive and well, and perhaps even reasserting itself in defiance of Roland Barthe's claim that the 'author' as a critical entity no longer exists. <i>No Country for Old Men: From Novel to Film</i> offers a valuable resourcenot only to students of McCarthy's novels and their adaptations but also for those interested in modern reconstructions of the Western genre. I recommend it as a thoroughly entertaining read. (<i>Literature/ Film Quarterly, January 2010</i>)
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  # No Country For Old Men
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
  
  
  No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
  
  
  No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
  
  
  No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
  
  
  No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
  
  
  No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
  
  
  
  
  
  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 finds 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-Speci