Bücher von Cormac McCarthy

'I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or as memorable as Blood Meridian . . . A nightmare odyssey' Evening Standard

Blood Meridian, a captivating novel penned by the renowned author Cormac McCarthy, was first published in 1992 by Random House USA Inc. This book, which falls under the genre of Western literature, is a masterpiece that weaves a compelling narrative with rich, evocative language. The story unfolds in a vividly painted landscape, where the lines between good and evil blur, and the characters grapple with their inner demons. McCarthy's storytelling prowess shines through every page, making this book a must-read for any literature enthusiast. Published by Random House USA Inc, it stands as a testament to their commitment to bringing quality literature to readers.

With an introduction by novelist Rachel KushnerIn the vanishing world of the Old West, two cowboys begin an epic adventure, and their own coming-of-age stories. In All the Pretty Horses, John Grady Cole's search for a future takes him across the Mexican border to a job as a ranch hand and an ill-fated romance. The Crossing is the story of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham, who sets off on a perilous journey across the mountains of Mexico, accompanied only by a lone wolf. Eventually the two come together in Cities of the Plain, in a stunning tale of loyalty and love.A true classic of American literature, The Border Trilogy is Cormac McCarthy's award-winning requiem for the American frontier. Beautiful and brutal, filled equally with sorrow and humour, it is a powerful story of two friends growing up in a world where blood and violence are conditions of life.

By Cormac McCarthy, the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, Child of God is a taut, chilling novel that plumbs the depths of human degradation. Lester Ballard, a violent, solitary and introverted young backwoodsman dispossessed on his ancestral land, is released from jail and allowed to haunt the hill country of East Tennessee, preying on the population with his strange lusts. McCarthy transforms commonplace brushes with humanity - in homesteads, stores and in the woods - into stunning scenes of the comic and the grotesque, and as the story hurtles toward its unforgettable conclusion, depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humour, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.

"Pass Christian, Mississippi, 1980: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips up the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from a Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit--by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, an inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul."--Dust jacket flap.

The Crossing forms second part of Cormac McCarthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, that began with All the Pretty Horses and concludes with The Cities of the Plain. Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World War, Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing follows the fortunes of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham and his younger brother Boyd. Fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family's property, Billy captures the animal - but rather than kill it, sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to where it came from. When Billy comes back to his own home he finds himself and his world irrevocably changed. His loss of innocence has come at a price, and once again the border beckons with its desolate beauty and cruel promise.

No Country for Old Men. Collection Edition, Author: Cormac McCarthy, Publication Year: 2022-08-04, Publisher: Pan Macmillan, Language: eng

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 Road.” —The Atlantic1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she recalls a childhood where, by the age of seven, her own grandmother feared for her; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, not quite dead, not quite hers. Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia’s psychiatric sessions, Stella Maris is a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda to The Passenger, a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.

The screenplay for McCarthy's classic film, bearing in full measure his gift?the ability to fit complex and universal emotions into ordinary lives and still preserve all of their power and significanceIn the spring of 1975 the film director Richard Pearce approached Cormac McCarthy with a screenplay idea. Though already a widely acclaimed novelist, the author of such modern classics as The Orchard Keeper and Child of God, McCarthy had never before written a screenplay. Using a few photographs in the footnotes to a 1928 biography of a famous pre?Civil War industrialist as inspiration, McCarthy and Pearce roamed the mill towns of the South researching their subject. A year later McCarthy finished The Gardener's Son, a taut, riveting drama of impotence, rage, and violence spanning two generations of mill owners and workers, fathers and sons, during the rise and fall of one of America's most bizarre utopian industrial experiments. Produced as a two-hour film and broadcast on PBS in 1976, The Gardener's Son received two Emmy Award nominations and was shown at the Berlin and Edinburgh Film Festivals.Set in Graniteville, South Carolina, The Gardener's Son is the tale of two families: the wealthy Greggs, who own and operate the local cotton mill, and the McEvoys, a family of mill workers beset by misfortune. The action opens as Robert McEvoy, a young mill worker, is having his leg amputated after an accident rumored to have been caused by James Gregg, the son of the mill's founder. Crippled and consumed by bitterness, McEvoy deserts both his job and his family.Returning two years later at the news of his mother's terminal illness, McEvoy arrives only to confront the grave diggers preparing her final resting place. His father, the mill's gardener, is now working on the factory line, the gardens forgotten. These proceedings stoke the slow-burning rage McEvoy carries within him, a fury that will ultimately consume both families.

Volume Three of the Border Trilogy In Cormac McCarthy's Cities of the Plain, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn again and again, in this story of friendships and passion, to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.

Sechzehn Jahre nach seinem Weltbestseller  Die Straße kehrt Pulitzer-Preisträger Cormac McCarthy zurück mit seinem zweibändigen Meisterwerk. Der Passagier und  Stella Maris : Zwei Romane ohne Vorbild. Die Wahrheit des einen negiert die des anderen. 1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, zwanzig Jahre alt, lässt sich mit vierzigtausend Dollar in einer Plastiktüte und einem manifesten Todeswunsch in die Psychiatrie einweisen. Die Diagnose der genialen jungen Mathematikerin und virtuosen Violinistin: paranoide Schizophrenie. Über ihren Bruder Bobby spricht sie nicht. Stattdessen denkt sie über Wahnsinn nach, über das menschliche Beharren auf einer gemeinsamen Welterfahrung, über ihre Kindheit, in der ihre Großmutter um sie fürchtete - oder sie fürchtete? Alicias Denken kreist um die Schnittstellen zwischen Physik, Philosophie, Kunst, um das Wesen der Sprache. Und sie ringt mit ihren selbstgerufenen Geistern, grotesken Chimären, die nur sie sehen und hören kann. Die Protokolle der Gespräche mit ihrem Psychiater zeigen ein Genie, das an der Unüberwindbarkeit der Erkenntnisgrenzen wahnsinnig wird, weder im Reich des Spirituellen noch in einer unmöglichen Liebe Erlösung findet und unsere Vorstellungen von Gott, Wahrheit und Existenz radikal infrage stellt.

Der erste Roman eines Meisters Die Geschichte von Arthur Ownby, Hüter eines verwilderten Apfelhains, dem jungen John Wesley Rattner und dem Schnapsschmuggler Marion Sylder spielt zwischen den Kriegen im gottverlassensten Tennessee. Marion hat vor Jahren in Notwehr Johns Vater getötet und in einer Mischgrube im Garten versenkt, ohne zu ahnen, dass Arthur sein stummer Augenzeuge war. Als Marion einen Autounfall hat, rettet John ihm das Leben. Der Junge, der den Tod seines Vaters rächen möchte, weiß so wenig, mit wem er es zu tun hat, wie umgekehrt Marion, und so entsteht eine Vater-Sohn-Beziehung zwischen den beiden in diesem vergifteten Garten Eden. Ein stimmungssatter, gewalttätiger, fast lyrischer Roman mit unvergesslichen Bildern voll düsterer Schönheit.

Tennessee in den sechziger Jahren:Lester Ballard ist ein Ausgestoßener, einsam und gewalttätig. Als ihm nach und nach die Reste eines normalen Lebens abhandenkommen, wird er zum Höhlenbewohner, zum Serienmörder, schließlich zum Nekrophilen. Er gerät in Haft, in die Psychiatrie, in die Gewalt rachsüchtiger Männer. Lester Ballard, «vielleicht ein Kind Gottes ganz wie man selbst.» Cormac McCarthys vielleicht düsterster Roman ¿ zum ersten Mal auf Deutsch

Im Kino: Ein All-Star-Film. Als Buch: Ein großes Werk von Cormac McCarthy Eigentlich ist er ein ganz biederer Kerl. Rechtsanwalt. Aber wenn er sich auf diesen einen todsicheren Deal einlässt, kann er danach mit seiner Freundin La Dolce Vita bis ans Ende seiner Tage genießen. Soweit der Plan. Doch dann wird ein Kurier enthauptet. Der Laster mit den fünfhundert Kilo Kokain verschwindet ohne jede Spur. Und das Kartell sucht nach Schuldigen.Jahre hat der Autor an seinem neuen Werk gearbeitet: ein echter McCarthy, hochspannend und gewürzt mit jenen philosophischen Überlegungen zum Thema Rache und Schicksal, die ihn berühmt machten.

«Ein Geschwisterpaar, das im Inzest ein Kind gezeugt und sich damit außerhalb der menschlichen Ordnung begeben hat. Das Neugeborene, das sein Vater namenlos im Wald aussetzt, wird für die beiden zur Inkarnation irdischer Verdammnis. Eine Geschichte von biblischer Wucht und antiker Unentrinnbarkeit in einer Sprache, die lapidare Alltagsdialoge und knappe, präzise Beschreibungen mit glühend-visionärem Pathos verbindet. Alles, die Figuren, die Südstaatenlandschaft, wirkt - und darin besteht McCarthys große Darstellungskunst - real und mythisch zugleich: Apokalypse im Wilden Westen.» (Frankfurter Rundschau)

Stella Maris, a captivating novel penned by the renowned author, Cormac McCarthy, is a must-read for all literature enthusiasts. Published in 2022, this masterpiece is a testament to McCarthy's exceptional storytelling. The genre of this book is a well-guarded secret, promising an exciting surprise for the reader. The narrative unravels in a way that only McCarthy can orchestrate, making it a compelling read from start to finish. Pan Books Ltd, a publisher known for their selection of quality literature, is proud to present this latest work by McCarthy. For those who appreciate the art of literature, Stella Maris is a book you shouldn't miss. This book is written in English, allowing a wide range of readers to enjoy McCarthy's unique narrative style.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and is estimated to become the third most common cause of death over the next decade. The knowledge of COPD pathogenesis and the disease course has greatly improved this progression in understanding and continues to have significant implications in the management of this condition. Novel areas of interest in COPD pathogenesis include further development of animal models, a better understanding of the genetics and epigenetics, the role of the microbiome, and an increasing appreciation of the associated comorbidities. This book intends to provide the reader with a brief overview of these topics and also provide an in-depth review of the current nonpharmacological clinical approaches to managing patients with COPD.

A powerful, dramatic playfrom the bestselling author of No Country for Old Men and The Road