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No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, who had originally written the story as a screenplay. The story occurs in the vicinity of the Mexico–United States border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone wrong in the Texas desert back country. Owing to its origins as a screenplay, the novel has a simple writing style that differs from McCarthy's earlier novels. The book was adapted by the Coen brothers into a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

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Джерела дають у середньому 8,3 за 644 оцінками — поки небагато, тому голос читачів важить 78%, а решту притягує до середнього категорії «Трилер» (7,5). Так виходить 8,1.

Голоси читачів

Найпопулярніші рецензії на Hardcover (із зазначенням авторів).

• EN

  “I started reading this book about 9:30 this morning. Intended to take an hour, ended up finally finishing it around 12:05. I feel like crying. I just want to sit for the rest of the day and not do or say or think anything, but just cry a little. It's a feeling like you've been punched in the chest for no good reason except that you believed the world was an okay place but it's really not, and I could say a bunch of self-indulgent pretentious things here, but what good would it do? I mean, I like reading things that make me feel, but I think I got a bit more than I bargained for here. And it…”

  ★ 5/5caligari87 на Hardcover

• EN

  “I read this book over a 3 days period while sat at the pool on holiday, McCarthy is very clever in how he sets up the scenes as he refuses to give you the endings you want, and example of this is how we see a moral side of Moss finally open up to the girl. Usually, you’d expect a final dramatic showdown, instead we learn of the brutal death of the two through the eye of Bell, which removes all senses of personality from Moss, who until this point was the main antagonist. This scene hits harder as this is where Moss became less of “the man with the money” and more a real person with morals, …”

  ★ 5/5Sandytoes06 на Hardcover

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