Cormac McCarthy
1) The road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger
A father and his son...
A father and his son...
2) Outer Dark
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • A novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century.
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone...
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone...
3) Child of God
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st Vintage International ed.
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard is released from jail, and a trip to the dry-goods store, an errand to the blacksmith, and other incidents are transformed into scenes of the comic and the grotesque.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: 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 West.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Based...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Based...
5) Suttree
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
No discussion of great modern authors is complete without mention of Cormac McCarthy, whose rare and blazing talent makes his every work a true literary event. A grand addition to the American literary canon, Suttree introduces readers to Cornelius Suttree, a man who abandons his affluent family to live among a dissolute array of vagabonds along the Tennessee river. "Suttree contains a humor that is Faulknerian . and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.
In that small apartment, “Black” and “White,” as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history,...
In that small apartment, “Black” and “White,” as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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-Special Forces...
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The story of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, who, along with two companions, sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
9) The crossing
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of...
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this magnificent novel, the National Book Award-winning author of "All the Pretty Horses" fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where ranch hands John Grady Cole and Billy Parham become ensnared in events resonating with the violence and inevitability of classic tragedy.
11) The passenger
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The first of a two-volume masterpiece, The Passenger series, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road • The story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Blends...
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Blends...
12) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road • An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence.
"The richest and strongest work of McCarthy’s career…An achievement greater than Blood Meridian…or…The...
"The richest and strongest work of McCarthy’s career…An achievement greater than Blood Meridian…or…The...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
On the eve of becoming a married man, the Counselor makes a risky entrance into the drug trade— and gambles that the consequences won' t catch up to him. Along the gritty terrain of the Texas- Mexico border, a respected and recently engaged lawyer throws his stakes into a cocaine trade worth millions. His hope is that it will be a one-time deal and that, afterward, he can settle into life with his beloved fiancee. But instead, the Counselor finds...
Author
Series
Bestseller) volume 702
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Español
Description
Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Texas/Mexico border when he stumbles upon several dead men, a big stash of heroin, and more than two million dollars in cash. He takes off with the money--and the hunter becomes the hunted. A drug cartel hires a former Special Forces agent to track down the loot, and a ruthless killer joins the chase as well. Also looking for Moss is the aging Sheriff Bell, a World War II veteran who may be Moss' only hope...
15) The road
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A father and his son are two of the last remaining people on earth after an unexplained tragedy has destroyed most of life. As the two head south, they are faced with many trials and tribulations along the way. An intense bond between the father and son is formed as together they strive to not only survive, but to retain humanity as they help the people they encounter along the way.