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It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminates a sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats. Missing from the crash site are 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, inventor of the atom bomb; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul. From the bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness, and one of the final works by Cormac McCarthy, a true American master.

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A SUNKEN JET. NINE PASSENGERS. A MISSING BODY.The Passenger is 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. 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight 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 flightbag, 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

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The top ten bestseller from the author of The Road, Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, afraid of the watery deep, and pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding. 'A gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller . .. It's rich and it's strange, mercurial and melancholic' - Guardian1980, Mississippi: A sunken jet, nine passengers and a missing body. It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges into the darkness of the ocean.His dive light illuminates a 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?Now a collateral witness, Bobby is haunted by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul.Traversing the American South, from the bars of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness. Look out for Stella Maris, the second book in the duology.

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It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminates a sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats. Missing from the crash site are 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, inventor of the atom bomb; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul. From the bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness, and one of the final works by Cormac McCarthy, a true American master.

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Volume Two of the Border Trilogy

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One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyA post-apocalyptic classic set in a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The Road is a masterpiece of American fiction from Cormac McCarthy.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for FictionThe landscape is destroyed. Nothing moves save the ash on the wind. Cruel, lawless men stalk the roadside, lying in wait. Attempting to survive in this brave new world, the young boy and his protector have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves. They must keep walking.In this unflinching study of the best and worst of humankind, Cormac McCarthy boldly divines a future without hope, but one in which, miraculously, this young family may yet find tenderness.'The Road made me cry for days' – Emma Donoghue, author of Room and Haven'[T]he most important environmental book ever written' – George Monbiot, author of Feral and RegenesisWith an introduction from John Banville, author of The Sea.Adapted into a critically-acclaimed film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron.Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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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 the late 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.

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'There isn't anyone remotely like him in contemporary American literature' New York Times

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Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian. 'The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page' - Financial TimesA 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 the two men, known as 'Black' and 'White', begin a conversatino that leads each back through his own history.White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con in recovery for drug addiction, is the more hopeful of the men. He is, however, desperate to convince White of the power of faith - while White is desperate to deny it.Between them, they hope to discover the meaning of life itself. Praise for Cormac McCarthy:'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

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The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' Guardian

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‘His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series'All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece' – Financial Times1949. At sixteen years-old, John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood.A grand love story, Cormac McCarthy's novel is about the passing of childhood, of innocence and a vanished American age.‘One of the greatest American novels of this or any time’ – GuardianAdapted into a film starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz.All the Pretty Horses is followed in the Border Trilogy by The Crossing and Cities of the Plain.Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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'Cormac McCarthy was such a virtuoso, his language was so rich and new . . .McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute. His sentences were astonishing.' - Anne Enright-----In 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. 'In a lovely and terrible landscape of natural beauty and impending loss we find John Grady; a young cowboy of the old school, trusted by men and horses, and a fragile young woman, whose salvation becomes his obsession . .. McCarthy makes the sweeping plains a miracle' - Scotsman'This haunting, deeply felt novel completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990s' - Daily Telegraph'The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' - GuardianPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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Román Hranice z roku 1994 je druhým dílem McCarthyho legendární "Hraniční trilogie". Odehrává na jihu Spojených států a v Mexiku před druhou světovou válkou a pojednává o překročení pomyslného prahu dospělosti dvou dospívajících bratrů v sepětí s přírodou, jejími odvěkými rytmy, na pozadí boje dobra a zla. Knihu lze v podstatě číst jako western -- jako příběh synů, kteří se rozhodli pomstít své zavražděné rodiče --, ale stejně jako v mnoha svých dalších dílech autor i zde překračuje žánrové omezení a nabízí čtenáři filosoficky založenou, barvitou a zároveň čtivou prózu, která precizně předvádí prastaré pravdy o lidském údělu.

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McCarthy v románu Cesta stroze a lapidárně líčí svět po globální katastrofě - přesně domýšlí jeho podobu i jednání přeživších ve světě, kde z někdejší civlilizace nezůstalo téměř nic. Děj Cesty tvoří putování otce a syna pustou, bezútěšnou krajinou, trvale zakrytou příkrovem mraků. Poutníci směřují k moři, vedeni neurčitou nadějí, jejíž chatrnost si dobře uvědomují. Většinu času hladoví, přespávají v lesích a pod mosty, vyhýbají se lidem, protože od těch, co přežili, se nedá čekat nic dobrého. Otec vynakládá veškeré úsilí na to, aby syna před světem uchránil a dovedl k cíli, protože tento úkol je to jediné, co má ještě smysl. A možná nejen pro něj samotného. Anotace 2: Svět po globální katastrofě. Bezútěšnou krajinou, šedou a studenou prochází otec s malým synem. Většinou hladoví, nocují v lesích, ostatním přeživším lidem se vyhýbají, protože od nich nemůžou čekat nic dobrého. Jejich nadějí je dojít k moři, otec však ví, že se jeho čas se krátí. Cesta je román temný, ale ne bezútěšný: apokalypsu líčí v mistrovské zkratce, ale čtenáři neodpírá naději. Za tento román autor obdržel v roce 2007 Pulitzerovu cenu.

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Nedlouho před svou svatbou se Konzultant, uznávaný právník, rozhodne vstoupit do riskantní oblasti obchodu s drogami na drsné texasko-mexické hranici - a doufá, že následkům tohoto rozhodnutí dokáže uniknout. Je pevně přesvědčen, že až mnohamilionový obchod s kokainem proběhne, vše se vrátí do starých kolejí a on se zase navrátí ke svému starému životu po boku milované snoubenky. Namísto toho se však ocitne uprostřed brutální a smrtelně nebezpečné hry, která může zničit všechno, co má rád, a všechny, jež kdy miloval. Cormac McCarthy se i ve svém posledním díle předvádí ve vrcholné formě, i když Konzultant není román, nýbrž "jen" scénář k filmu, který letos natočil hvězdný režisér Ridley Scott s neméně hvězdnými obsazením: v hlavních rolích se tu objeví Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz a Javier Bardem. Českou premiéru měl film 28. listopadu.

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'Cormac McCarthy was such a virtuoso, his language was so rich and new . . .McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute. His sentences were astonishing.' - Anne Enright-----The Crossing forms the second part of the late Cormac McCarthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, a story that began with All the Pretty Horses and concludes with 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.'The Crossing is like a river in full spate: beautiful and dangerous' - The TimesPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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In this semi-autobiographical work, a man abandons his life of privilege to live among eccentrics, criminals and the impoverished of Knoxville. Suttree is a humorous, compelling tapestry of life on the edge from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road and Blood Meridian. 'Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair' - Times Literary Supplement1951.Cornelius Suttree lives alone, exiled on a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River. As we meet him, Suttree watches the police haul the body of a suicidal man from the water. Amongst the living, the river is home to hermits, sex workers, alcoholics - and a witch.Conjuring James Joyce's Ulysses, Suttree wanders the river with a detachment and wry humour, encountering a broad cast of humanity as he does - even as dereliction and destitution threaten the last of his remaining dignity. 'Suttree is like a good, long scream in the ear' - New York TimesPraise for Cormac McCarthy:'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

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Svět pohltila apokalypsa. Trosky, popel a mrtví lidé. A otec se synem tlačí pustinou nákupní vozík se vším jejich majetkem. Deštěm, sněhem a mrazem kamsi na jih, na pobřeží, snaží se proklouznout mezi kanibaly a divokými tlupami. Manu Larcenet (Brodeckova zpráva) se bravurně zhostil adaptace románu Cormaca McCarthyho Cesta ověnčeného v roce 2007 Pulitzerovou cenou. Zážitek z neobyčejného příběhu je v jeho podání možná ještě silnější než samotná kniha.

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The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full.Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account of the barbarous violence that man visits upon man. Through the hostile landscape of the Texas-Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood. But the apparent chaos is not without its order: while Americans hunt Indians - collecting scalps as their bloody trophies - they too are stalked as prey.Since its first publication in 1985, Blood Meridian has been read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form. Powerful, mesmerizing and savagely beautiful, it is established as one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century. Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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'Cormac McCarthy was such a virtuoso, his language was so rich and new . . .McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute. His sentences were astonishing.' - Anne Enright-----The first screenplay by the late Cormac McCarthy, The Gardener's Son is the tale of two families: the wealthy Greggs, who own the local cotton mill, and the McEvoys, a family of mill workers beset by misfortune. Two years ago, Robert McEvoy was involved in an accident that led to the amputation of his leg.Consumed by bitterness and anger, he quit his job at the mill and fled. Now, news of his mother's terminal illness brings Robert home. What he finds on his return stokes the slow burning rage he carries within him, a fury that ultimately consumes both the McEvoys and the Greggs.This taut, riveting drama was Cormac McCarthy's first written screenplay. Directed by Richard Pearce, it was produced as a two-hour film in 1976 and received two Emmy Award nominations. This is the first UK publication of the film script in book form.

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'Cormac McCarthy was such a virtuoso, his language was so rich and new . . .McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute. His sentences were astonishing.' - Anne Enright-----The masterful coda to The Passenger from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road. GOD.TRUTH. EXISTENCE. Stella Maris is the story of a mathematician, twenty years old, admitted to the hospital with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag and one request: She does not want to talk about her brother.

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Alicia Western is the following: Twenty years old. A brilliant mathematician at the University of Chicago. And a paranoid schizophrenic who does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia's psychiatric sessions, Stella Maris is a searching, profoundly moving companion to The Passenger. It is a powerful enquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and life itself by one of America's finest writers.

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Hlavním protagonistou románu je Lester Ballard, vrah a nekrofil, kterého společnost vyloučila ze svého středu a který žije v podzemním labyrintu jeskyní se svými trofejemi - plyšáky, které si vystřílel na poutích, a s rozkládajícími se mrtvolami svých obětí. V první části sledujeme Lesterovu postupnou a nevratnou proměnu v outsidera, vyvrhele a "účastného" pozorovatele, který se stává postrachem Frog Mountain. Druhá část se soustřeďuje na změnu ještě zdánlivě neškodného voyeura v šíleného vraha. Lester Ballard má však přesto s ostatními lidmi něco společného -nezměrnou touhu po lásce, kterou však není schopen získat a naplnit běžným způsobem. Přes všechnu hrůznost Lesterova počínání si čtenář uvědomuje, že k němu není schopen cítit pouze antipatie. Dítě Boží vychází ze skutečného případu, ke kterému došlo v Tennessee. Je zde však také všudypřítomný mýtus, posílený alegorickými prvky díla. Přestože román líčí proces postupného odcizení a totální ztrátu morálních hodnot, nutí současně čtenáře, aby hledal vysvětlení daného stavu, a to zdaleka nejen Ballardových činů. Koneckonců, Lester Ballard je jedním z nás, "dítě Boží, jako vy nebo já".

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Po dlouhých šestnácti letech, jež uplynuly od vydání jeho světového bestselleru Cesta, se doyen americké literatury vrátil na scénu s novým dílem, románovým diptychem. Jeho první část, nazvaná Pasažér, pojednává o peripetiích záchranáře Bobbyho Westerna, zatímco část druhá, Stella Maris, je věnována jeho sestře Alicii, doktorandce matematiky na Chicagské univerzitě. Ta se znenadání objeví v nemocnici ve Wisconsinu se čtyřiceti tisíci dolary v igelitové tašce. Záhy se ukáže, že trpí paranoidní schizofrenií a že možná v její mentální nestabilitě hraje určitou roli její bratr Bobby, o němž za žádnou cenu nechce mluvit. Reálný svět, zejména vzpomínky na dětství, se na plátně, které čtenářům představuje, prolínají s přeludy, premisami a závěry fyziky a filosofie. Příběh, vyprávěný prostřednictvím záznamů z terapeutických sezení, je působivým dovětkem k románu Pasažér a zároveň úchvatnou meditací o pojmech jako Bůh, pravda, zkušenost a lidská existence.

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The masterful coda to The Passenger from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road.GOD. TRUTH. EXISTENCE.Stella Maris is the story of a mathematician, twenty years old, admitted to the hospital with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag and one request: She does not want to talk about her brother.

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Závěrečný díl autorovy Pohraniční trilogie svádí dohromady oba přeživší kovboje z předchozích románů: Johnyho Grady Colea ze Všech krásných koní, nyní o tři roky staršího, tedy devatenáctiletého, a Billyho Parhama z Hranice, kterému je teď osmadvacet. Je rok 1952 a pracují spolu na ranči v Novém Mexiku kousek od hranic s Texasem a Mexikem. Oba tuší, že nadchází konec starých časů a starých zvyků, konec kovbojů, a začíná se něco nového a hrozného, neboť válka všechno změnila. John se při návštěvě bordelu v mexickém Juárezu zamiluje do prostitutky Magdaleny s dobrým srdcem a kamarád Billy mu kryje záda, neboť každá prostitutka má také pasáka, který už dobré srdce nemá. Dochází na milostné melodrama, označované za McCarthyho verzi Romea a Julie, kdy znepřátelenými rody jsou Mexičané a Američané. Silná ramena ustupují tak trochu sentimentu. I zde je však prolito hodně krve. Název knihy odkazuje na biblická města Sodomu a Gomoru, jež sešla ze světa pro svoji hříšnost.

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"Román v divadelní formě" poněkud vybočuje z celku McCarthyho díla: nejen tím, že vznikl původně jako divadelní hra (jež se v roce 2006 hrála s úspěchem na Broadwayi a v Chicagu), ale také přísnou jednotou místa a času, strohým jazykem a na kost oholenými dialogy. Setkáváme se v něm jen se dvěma postavami, označenými jako "Černý" a "Bílý", jež spolu vedou dlouhý rozhovor v zašlém newyorském bytě - a neřeší přitom nic menšího než otázku po smyslu života. "Bílý", nihilisticky založený profesor humanitních věd, je pevně rozhodnutý spáchat sebevraždu, "Černý", bývalý kriminálník, jenž díky kdysi nalezené víře v Boha změnil svůj život od základu, se mu jeho úmysl pokouší rozmluvit. Zdánlivě jednoduchý půdorys díla se ovšem v brilantním McCarthyho podání komplikuje a zpočátku přehledná, jednoznačně rozvržená pře obou mužů se postupně mění v rafinovanou disputaci nabitou symbolickými významy, v níž jako by se střetával Tomáš Akvinský se Samuelem Beckettem.

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Audiokniha: Cormac McCarthy vydal svůj pátý román, Krvavý poledník aneb Večerní červánky na západe, v roce 1985, a přestože byly kritické recenze víceméně příznivé, většinu hodnotitelů zarazila nebývalá míra násilí a pozoruhodná absence morálních zásad. Z komerčního hlediska nebyla kniha příliš úspěšná a trvalo několik dalších let, než byla čtenáři opravdu doceněna. Dnes je už pravidelně ražena mezi nejdůležitější americké romány dvacátého století. Dej se odehrává v letech 1849-1850 na americko-mexickém pomezí, kde Glantonova tlupa nájemných zabijáku loví pro mexickou vládu indiánské skalpy. V tlupě se objevuje mnoho historicky doložených postav, ale též smyšlený a bezejmenný šestnáctiletý kluk, protagonista celého příběhu. Nade všemi se však tyčí tajuplný soudce Holden, jenž právem aspiruje na nejzlověstnější postavu americké literatury vůbec. Krvavý poledník je syrovou výpravou do historického mezidobí, které na Západe zavládlo po americko-mexické válce a kdy platil pouze zákon silnějšího, zákon rychlejší ruky a zákon většího kalibru. V nachově masitých barvách, za libozvučného křupání chrupavek a s nasládlou pachutí krve se zde v celé své grotesknosti vyjevuje pravá podstata lidství – ovládá nás krutost, násilí, válka. CORMAC McCARTHY se narodil roku 1933 v Providence ve státě Rhode Island. Navštevoval University of Tennessee, během studií začal psát a publikovat a univerzitu nedokončil. Rukopis svého prvního románu Strážce sadu poslal do nakladatelství Random House, kde se ho ujal někdejší Faulknerův redaktor Albert Erskine, s nímž pak McCarthy spolupracoval dalších dvacet let. Vydal deset románu (v českých překladech je všechny přineslo nakladatelství Argo). K nejslavnějším patří Všichni krásní koně (první díl „Hranicní trilogie“, spolu s romány Hranice a Města na planinách), Krvavý poledník, Tahle země není pro starý (úspěšné zfilmováno v roce 2007). Jak sám řekl, respektuje jen spisovatele, kteří se zabývají otázkami života a smrti. Sám toto pravidlo naplňuje bohatým jazykem a nebojácnou obrazností, která čtenáře neušetří ničeho z lidského zla, jež je v McCarthyho knihách všudypřítomné. Autorovi se dostalo velkého kritického uznání i literárních cen, mezi nimiž nechybí National Book Award for Fiction ci National Book Critic Circle Award anebo Pulitzerova cena za Cestu. V roce 2007 zařadila vlivná Oprah Winfreyová Cestu do svého „Knižního klubu“ a McCarthy přijal pozvání do jejího televizního poradu; obojí přispělo k tomu, že se se samotářským autorem a jeho dílem seznámil širší okruh čtenářů. „Cormac McCarthy je zasloužilý následovník Melvilla a Faulknera. Žádný jiný žijící americký romanopisec nám nedaroval tak silnou a velkolepou knihu.“ – literární kritik Harold Bloom. Cormac McCarthy: Krvavý poledník aneb Večerní červánky na západě | Překlad Martin Svoboda | Čte Lukáš Hlavica | Režie Petr Gojda | Zvuk a střih Kate Hamsíková | Hudba Ivan Acher | Mastering Štěpán Škoch | Natočeno ve studiu All Senses Production s. r. o. | Grafi ka CD Jana Rybová | Produkce Kateřina Višinská | Vydala Euromedia Group, a. s. – Témbr, v březnu 2023 CORMAC McCARTHY: Krvavý poledník aneb Večerní červánky na západě Z anglického originálu Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West vydaného roku 1990 nakladatelstvím Picador v Londýně přeložil Martin Svoboda | Vydalo nakladatelství Argo, 2019 | Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West | Copyright © 1985 by Cormac McCarthy | Překlad © Martin Svoboda, 2019

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McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters' Village Voice

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Města na planině (1998) tvoří závěrečný díl volné románové trilogie zasazené na americko-mexické pomezí. V roce 1952 se na ranči v Novém Mexiku, na pláních nedaleko nechvalně proslulých, hříšných a násilných měst El Pasa a Juárezu, sejdou dva hrdinové předešlých dílů: John Grady Cole ze Všech krásných koní a Billy Parham z Hranice. Prvnímu je teď devatenáct a umí to s koňmi jako málokdo, druhému je osmadvacet, ale kdo ho nezná, hádal by mu o dvacet víc. Oba mají za sebou drsné životní zkušenosti, které je připravily o iluze, ale nikoli o ideály odvahy, cti a ryzí lidské sounáležitosti. Leč všechno kolem se mění, nastupuje nová, moderní doba. A jejich svět - svět kovbojů a honáků dobytka - spěje k zániku. Vše, co důvěrně znali, neodvratně mizí, stejně jako z kdysi úrodné, nyní suchem umírající krajiny zmizela celá pokolení dřívějších obyvatel. Zbývají jen příběhy, které snad vítr nerozfouká jako prach. Mezi nimi i ten o kovbojovi, který se v Juárezu zamiloval do mladičké prostitutky Magdaleny. Nebo ten o poutníkovi, jemuž se na pradávném obětišti zdál zvláštní sen. McCarthyho román lze číst jako existenciální western, kovbojskou pastorálu nebo temnou variaci na klasické téma osudové lásky. To, co jej činí výjimečným, jsou nezapomenutelné, brutálně krásné výjevy, lakonické dialogy, v nichž jako by se koncentrovala všechna moudrost světa, a nostalgie, která proniká až do morku kostí, úchvatně mrazivá jako noc strávená venku pod širým nebem. "Americká klasika, která se řadí k těm největším literárním počinům století." - San Francisco Chronicle "Tragicky velkolepé." - Washington Post

Objev podobné jako Města na planině - Cormac McCarthy

Jeden muž najde šťastnou náhodou na poušti v kabele pohádkovou hotovost, výsledek války drogových gangů. Od té chvíle ho i s jeho manželkou, která se odjede skrýt ke své matce, začne pronásledovat ten, kterému peníze patřily, a všem třem je na stopě celkem stoicky uvažující šerif - těm dvěma chce život zachránit, třetího dopadnout. Netradiční detektivní příběh ve stylu "noir" z texasko-mexické hranice se ve svém průběhu plní policistovými meditacemi na téma láska, krev a občanská povinnost. K proslulosti díla přispělo i filmové zpracování bratří Coenů z roku 2007, které krom jiných ocenění získalo čtyři Oscary.

Objev podobné jako Tahle země není pro starý - Cormac McCarthy

Savage violence and cruel morality reign in the backwater deserts of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, a tale of one man's dark opportunity - and the darker consequences that spiral forth. Adapted for the screen by the Coen Brothers (Fargo, True Grit), winner of four Academy Awards (including Best Picture). 1980. Llewelyn Moss, a Vietnam veteran, is hunting antelope near the Rio Grande when he stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

Objev podobné jako No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

Audiokniha: Krimi thriller jednoho z nejtemnějších žalobců současného stavu americké společnosti o absolutní ztrátě hodnot. Filmová adaptace vyhrála čtyři Oscary. „Na něco se tě zeptám. Jestli tě tvý pravidla dovedly až sem, k čemu ty pravidla byly?“ Llewelyn Moss vyrazí na lov a během něj objeví místo, kde se zvrtla předávka drog. Najde několik mrtvých mužů a v kabele pohádkovou hotovost. Od této chvíle ho i s jeho manželkou Carlou Jean, která se odjede skrýt ke své matce, začne pronásledovat ten, jemuž peníze patřily, zločinec Anton Chigurh. Všem třem je pak na stopě celkem stoicky uvažující šerif Ed Tom Bell – těm dvěma chce život zachránit, třetího dopadnout… Podle knihy vznikl v roce 2007 stejnojmenný americký film v režii bratří Coenů, který získal čtyři Oscary.

Objev podobné jako Tahle země není pro starý - Cormac McCarthy - audiokniha

A luxury cruise liner, abandoned with no crew, steaming into the mid-Atlantic. And you are the only passenger left on board. ''Astonishing'' IAN RANKIN ''The premise is excellent... [a] mile-a-minute, bite-your-nails-to-the-quick ride of a novel, but I will tell you to trust this writer because I guarantee you''ll enjoy where he takes you. Extra kudos for the final twist, which brought me great pleasure'' OBSERVER ''Oh my goodness, what a rollercoaster of a read!'' PRIMA Caz Ripley, a cafe owner from a small, ordinary town, boards the RMS Atlantica with her boyfriend Pete and a thousand fellow passengers destined for New York. The next morning, she wakes to discover that everyone else on board has disappeared. And that''s just the beginning. Caz must prepare for a crossing that will be anything but plain sailing ... With the drama of The Woman in Cabin 10 and the tension of And Then There Were None , The Last Passenger is a psychological thriller set aboard a cruise ship about a woman whose seemingly ordinary life is suddenly thrown dramatically off course. Will Dean is The Master of Intense Suspense and this novel is full of his trademark twists and turns. ''A rollercoaster ride. I barely had any nails left by the end!'' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ''This heart-stopping premise is one of the best openings to a book I''ve read'' SUNDAY EXPRESS ''The apex of suspense writing'' STEVE CAVANAGH ''Thrilling and terrifying in equal measure with a brilliantly heart-stopping ending. So good!'' B.A. PARIS ''Expect not just the unexpected but strokes of genius'' IMRAN MAHMOOD ''''Brilliant, twisted and oh so clever. The Last Passenger is Will Dean at the top of his game. And just wait for that killer last line'' CHRIS WHITAKER ''A fast-paced, snakily plotted treat for fans of the modern psychological thriller'' VASEEM KHAN ''Will Dean is a master storyteller - this book is real edge of the seat stuff! I loved it. And what an ending!'' CATHERINE COOPER ''I *guarantee* you will never read another thriller like this one. Sharp, unique, terrifying, page-turning and glorious. Clearly Stephen King and James Herbert had a baby and his name is Will Dean. It''s bloody brilliant'' JOANNA CANNON

Objev podobné jako The Last Passenger - Will Dean

This is a real adventure book, so be careful not to get too lost between its pages...The Vasylenko family are adventurers. They all love the wet and the wild, the thrill of exploring the outside world. All that is ... except Oktober. He prefers the warm and safe comfort of the inside world, and for his adventures to take place between the pages of a book. But tomorrow, Oktober has to join his family on a trek into the slimy, grimy and climby wild, where he sees only danger and worry and fears a creature called "The Wilderness"! Failing to keep his wits about him could be dangerous though – it may even get him a bit ... lost. But perhaps getting lost is just what Oktober needs to find himself and maybe even make an unexpected friend.The Wilderness is a wild and wondrous story of true bravery and discovering friendship in the most unexpected of places, perfect for adventurers and the more timid alike.

Objev podobné jako The Wilderness - McCarthy Steve

Kniha - 528 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The first book in the heart-stopping The Darkest Minds trilogy.

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eBook: ‘The Zeppelin’s Passenger’ by popular author E. Phillips Oppenheim was first published in 1918 and is set during WWI. When a Zeppelin crashes in a small English town the passenger escapes to wreak havoc. Dissatisfied in her marriage, local woman Phillipa finds herself attracted to the dangerous stranger and her allegiances are torn as she begins to help him with his espionage, despite her patriotic leanings. Will she really betray her country for the love of a stranger?

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New York City, present dayIn one night, Etta Spencer is wrenched from everything she knows and loves. Thrown into an unfamiliar world, she can be certain of only one thing: she has travelled not just miles, but years from home.The Atlantic, 1776Captain Nicholas Carter is tasked with delivering Etta to the dangerous Ironwood family. They are searching for something - a stolen object they believe only she can reclaim. But Nicholas is drawn to his mysterious passenger, and the closer he gets to her, the further he is from freedom.The Edges of the WorldTogether, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by a desperate thief. But as Etta plays deeper into the Ironwoods' game, treacherous forces threaten to separate her not only from Nicholas, but from her path home - for ever.

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U. is a 'corporate anthropologist' who, while working on a giant, epoch-defining project no one really understands, is also tasked with writing the Great Report on our society. But instead, U. spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic jams, roller-blade processions. Is there a secret logic holding all these images together? Once cracked, will it unlock the master-meaning of our era? Might it have something to do with the dead parachutists in the news? Perhaps; perhaps not.

Objev podobné jako Satin Island - McCarthy Tom

Her codename is Kingfisher. Her mission: to seduce and marry most powerful man in the world. October 2016: In America, the election is a few weeks away. Journalist Grace Elliot has just landed a scoop that she believe will make her career. A porn-star is willing to talk about her affair with the man some hope and many fear will become the next president of the United Stares. But no one will touch it. Instead, Grace is sent to Europe where she discovers a story so big, so explosive that it could decide the American election and launch a new Cold War. If she can stay alive long enough to tell it... Spies, murder and one of the biggest conspiracies of our time lie at the heart of the thriller of the year.

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A modern serial killer - hunting an ancient secret. \n\nA woman is left to die as the rebuilt Globe theatre burns. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the water. A professor has his throat slashed open on the steps of Washington's Capitol building. \n\nA deadly serial killer is on the loose, modelling his murders on Shakespeare's plays. But why is he killing? And how can he be stopped? \n\nA gripping, shocking page turner, The Shakespeare Secret masterfully combines modern murder and startling true revelations from the life of Shakespeare. It has been acclaimed as one of the most compulsively readable thrillers of recent years.

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'I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.My name is Kvothe.You may have heard of me'So begins the tale of Kvothe - currently known as Kote, the unassuming innkeepter - from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, through his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages you will come to know Kvothe the notorious magician, the accomplished thief, the masterful musician, the dragon-slayer, the legend-hunter, the lover, the thief and the infamous assassin.The Name of the Wind is fantasy at its very best, and an astounding must-read title.

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Geralt the Witcher races to find his missing ward, Ciri, in this fourth novel in the bestselling Witcher series that inspired the Netflix show and video games.The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the first time in her life.But the net around her is closing. Geralt, the Witcher, has assembled a group of allies determined to rescue her. Both sides of the war have sent brutal mercenaries to hunt her down. Her crimes have made her famous.There is only one place left to run. The tower of the swallow is waiting...Translated by David French.

Objev podobné jako The Tower of the Swallow (Defekt) - Andrzej Sapkowski

While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress.

Objev podobné jako The Mark and the Void (Defekt) - Paul Murray

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon - all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where "the most interesting things happen at night."

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After walking through a portal in the Tower of the Swallow, thus narrowly escaping death, the Witcher girl, Ciri, finds herself in a completely different world... a world of the Elves. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to exist and there are no obvious borders or portals to cross back into her home world. But this is Ciri, the child of prophecy, and she will not be defeated. She knows she must escape to finally rejoin the Witcher, Geralt, and his companions - and also to try to conquer her worst nightmare. Leo Bonhart, the man who chased, wounded and tortured Ciri, is still on her trail. And the world is still at war.

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Objev podobné jako The Year of the Locust (Defekt) - Terry Hayes

Vaclav Havel's remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer's unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves? Written in 1978, Vaclav Havel's meditation on political dissent - the rituals of its suppression, and the sparks that re-ignite it - would prove the guiding manifesto for uniting Solidarity movements across the Soviet Union. A portrait of activism in the face of falsehood and intimidation, The Power of the Powerless remains a rousing call against the allure of apathy. 'Havel's diagnosis of political pathologies has a special resonance in the age of Trump' Pankaj Mishra

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Objev podobné jako The Year of the Locust (Defekt) - Terry Hayes

Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a terrible surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi's wit and will get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she may be falling in love with a murderer. Shazi discovers that the villainous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. It's up to her to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all. "So you would have me throw Shazi to the wolves?" "Shazi? Honestly, I pity the wolves."

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