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Dewey Decimal. 813/.54 22. LC Class. PS3563.C337 N6 2005. No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, who had originally written the story as a screenplay. [1] The story occurs in the vicinity of the Mexico–United States border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert back country.
April 20, 2017. (2017-04-20) " The Kekulé Problem " is a 2017 essay written by the American author Cormac McCarthy for the Santa Fe Institute (SFI). It was McCarthy's first published work of non-fiction. The science magazine Nautilus first ran the article online on April 20, 2017, then printed it as the cover story for an issue on the subject ...
Budget. $25 million. Box office. $171.6 million [1] No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western crime thriller film written, directed, produced and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy 's 2005 novel. [2] Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, the film is set in the desert landscape of 1980 West ...
While McCarthy’s first novel, “The Orchard Keeper,” was published in 1965, commercial success eluded him until his 1992 National Book Award-winning “All the Pretty Horses” and the film ...
Sailing to Byzantium. " Sailing to Byzantium " is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in his collection October Blast, in 1927 [1] and then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter. It uses a journey to Byzantium (Constantinople) as a metaphor for a ...
—Cormac McCarthy's polysyndetic use of "and" in No Country for Old Men McCarthy used punctuation sparsely, even replacing most commas with "and" to create polysyndetons ; it has been called "the most important word in McCarthy's lexicon". He told Oprah Winfrey that he preferred "simple declarative sentences" and that he used capital letters, periods, an occasional comma, or a colon for ...
No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western thriller film produced, directed, written, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. [1] [2] Based on Cormac McCarthy's novel of the same name, the film is about an ordinary man to whom chance delivers a fortune that is not his, and the ensuing cat-and-mouse drama as the paths of three men intertwine in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. [3]
Anton Chigurh. Anton Chigurh (/ ʃɪˈɡɜːr / shih-GUR) is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Cormac McCarthy 's 2005 novel No Country for Old Men. In the 2007 film adaptation of the same name, he is portrayed by Javier Bardem. Bardem's performance as Chigurh was widely lauded by film critics—he won an Academy Award, Golden ...