Monday, December 13, 2004

In Which the Webmaster Engages in Shameless Self-Promotion


I thought it worth mentioning that my entry on Cormac McCarthy in the Dictionary of Literary Biography is available as a downloadable and printable PDF from Amazon.com. I wish someone would review it.
posted by mp
12/13/2004

Friday, December 10, 2004

From the Horse's Mouth

Our own Rick Wallach scoops practically everybody today. From the Forum:

Courtesy of Random House senior editor Gary Fisketjon and his assistant, Liz Van Hoose, here is an advance look at the Alfred A. Knopf catalogue description of No Country for Old Men from the...um...horses's mouth. According to Gary, the novel is set in the area of Eagle Pass, Texas and "westward," as he understates the theme of pursuit. He also assures me that the August publication date is firm, and he sounds legitimately enthused about the book itself.

Set along a bloody frontier in our own time, this is Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, bestselling Border Trilogy.

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and over two 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 that Moss and his young wife are in desperate need of protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex-Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accustomed to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches along and across the border, each participant seemingly determined to answer what one asks another: How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

A harrowing story of a war society wages on itself, an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, and a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.

posted by mp
12/10/2004

Wednesday, December 08, 2004

No Country for Old Men: The Movie

The Hollywood Reporter reports today:

Scott Rudin will produce an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's upcoming novel "No Country for Old Men" for Paramount Pictures. McCarthy is the critically acclaimed author of such Western-themed novels as "Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West" and the National Book Award-winning "All the Pretty Horses," which was adapted into a movie starring Matt Damon in 2000. "Old Men," a noir thriller set in West Texas, tells the blood-soaked tale of a man on the run with a suitcase full of money being pursued by a number of individuals. It is scheduled to hit bookshelves via Knopf in August. The prolific Rudin exec produced "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events," which opens Dec. 17. He also has been involved in "Team America: World Police," "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou," "Closer," "I § Huckabees," "The Village," "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The Stepford Wives." McCarthy is repped by ICM.

Thanks to forum-poster "Murel" for the information.
posted by mp
12/08/2004

Monday, December 06, 2004

No Country for Old Men

Amazon.com has listed Cormac McCarthy's new novel, No Country for Old Men
for publication from Knopf — as usual — on August 23, 2005. The Amazon listing says the book will run to 352 pages. The title comes from the first line of William Butler Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium". Thanks to Adam for the notice.
posted by mp
12/06/2004

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