Blood Meridian : Or, the Evening Redness in the West

Literature & Fiction

MCCARTHY, CORMAC

Genre Fiction

Picador UK

A Man in Full

1st Picador 1999 trade edition paperback, fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Tom Wolfe

Contemporary

Cormac McCarthy's award-winning, bestselling trio of novels chronicles the coming-of-age of two young men in the south west of America. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys of the old school, are poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Their journeys across the border into Mexico, each an adventure fraught with fear and pain, mark a passage into adulthood, and eventual salvation. In All the Pretty Horses, young John Grady Cole, dispossessed by the sale of his family's Texas ranch, heads across the border in search of the cowboy life, where he finds a job breaking horses, and a dangerously ill-fated romance. In The Crossing, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch and, instead of killing it, decides to take it on a perilous journey home to the mountains of Mexico. These two drifters come together years later in Cities of the Plain, a magnificent tale of friendship and passion. In the vanishing world of the Old West, blood and violence are conditions of life. Beautiful and brutal, filled with sorrow and humour, The Border Trilogy is both an epic love story and a fierce elegy for the American frontier. McCarthy makes the sweeping plains a miracle' Scotsman

The Border Trilogy

cormac-mccarthy

Dark horses: An experience of literary journalism

This work offers Karl Miller's recollections of author's such as Kingsley Amis, Seamus Heaney and Muriel Spark, as well as his reflections on football and the new "laddism". Miller is a former literary editor of "The Spectator" and the "New Statesman".

Karl Miller

Essays & Correspondence

Museum Guard Norman Howard

NORMAN, Howard

Kate Linden is a 35 year old single mother, who dreams of a rosy future with a dream man who will love both her and her son Sam. But while she's waiting for the arrival of that unknown saviour, she finds herself entangled with her handsome, domineering cousin Julian, the son of her dead mother's twin sister. As she returns to Julian's childhood home in Norfolk for a family weekend, Kate is drawn back into the mysteries that haunt her. What was the truth of the relationship between her mother and Julian's father? Who was responsible for her mother's death in a car crash? How will the patterns of that dark past repeat themselves, or can she escape them? Justine Picardie writes with a clear, beautiful voice about family intrigues and intricacies. WISH I MAY is a story about the shadows cast by the past, but also of a sustaining hope for the future, and the magical transformations of love. 'A seductive tale about secrets and the ghosts of childhood' Independent 'A beautiful, elegiac and intensely readable novel. Justine Picardie writes very movingly about the bonds between the living and the dead, the horrors and rewards of family life, and one woman's search for happiness' Zoe Heller

Wish I May

Picardie, Justine

The author succeeds in presenting the right mix of theory and history with ... his ironically simple thesis that the world is complex and contradictory, and ... By T. Baughman on September 4, 2002.

The Writer and the World: Essays

V.S.Naipaul

History & Criticism

Nowhere Man

Hemon, Aleksandar

"Are our schools safe?"  It's hard to turn on the news without hearing this question, and the answer is typically "no."  This novel explores what happens when bullying escalates to violence, and it challenges our definition of victimization.    With thought-provoking prose, Suzanne Phillips explores the psyche of Cameron, a bullied freshman who ultimately does the unthinkable: he kills another student.  As she did with Chloe Doe, Suzanne has found a way to make this seemingly dark story ultimately redemptive.  But she also dares readers to look at the behavior that provokes violence as having the potential to be as dangerous as the violence itself.  It's Suzanne's hope that Burn will inspire readers to take a precautionary stance against bullying rather than waiting to react to it.

Burn

Children's Books

Phillips, Suzanne

Growing Up & Facts of Life

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Afterlife

O’Brien, Sean

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