Trish's review
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
Trish's review
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Trish's review
rating:
When I tried to read this a while back, I stalled out in the early pages. Those spare sentences about guns and the Western landscape were like inpenetrable koans. This time, I concentrated and caught the rhythm of the fractured story McCarthy tells--a story about drugs, money and, mostly, murder.
Lllewelyn Moss is just hunting for antelope. Instead, he finds dead bodies, a cache of heroin, and $2 million. If he walked away, could he have been saved? Or was his fate sealed by happenstance? Moss takes the $2 million, and then the pursuit begins. A psychopath named Chigurgh is determined not so much to recover the money as to serve as an instrument of skewed, bloody justice.
Interspersed with Moss's flight and Chigurgh's body-strewn pursuit are the musings of Sheriff Bell, a good man who sees the way the world is changing. Chigurgh and his body count are just one example of the new breed of criminal. Bell no longer sees much that he can do in the way of protecting and serving; he ...more
Lllewelyn Moss is just hunting for antelope. Instead, he finds dead bodies, a cache of heroin, and $2 million. If he walked away, could he have been saved? Or was his fate sealed by happenstance? Moss takes the $2 million, and then the pursuit begins. A psychopath named Chigurgh is determined not so much to recover the money as to serve as an instrument of skewed, bloody justice.
Interspersed with Moss's flight and Chigurgh's body-strewn pursuit are the musings of Sheriff Bell, a good man who sees the way the world is changing. Chigurgh and his body count are just one example of the new breed of criminal. Bell no longer sees much that he can do in the way of protecting and serving; he ...more
