Bøker av Cormac McCarthy

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: 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. Look for Stella Maris, the second volume in The Passenger series, on sale December 6th, 2022 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the 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, 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 garrulous barrooms 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.

Med sitt lyrisk inspirerte, detaljerte og originale språk, sine nærgående skildringer av liv og landskap og sine dype fortellinger, noen av dem på grensen til det bibelske, tar Cormac McCarthy opp en helt unik plass i samtidslitteraturen.Frukthagen, den første romanen hans, her for første gang på norsk, er allerede en klassiker, og en roman som nevnes i selskap med flere av William Faulkners.Handlingen er lagt til et lite sted utenfor Knoxville, Tennessee, i 1930- årene.Her bor John Wesley, en ung gutt på leting etter seg selv, men også Marion Sylder, en outcast og hjemmebrenner. Uten at noen av dem er klar over det, har.Marion Sylder.tatt livet av guttens far. Disse to, og Johns onkel, Arthur Ownby, en gammel mann fra en annen tid og med en annen tenkemåte, vikles inn i et drama som synes å være like gammelt som landskapet rundt dem..

Lester Ballard betalte ikke skatt, og gården gikk derfor på tvangsauksjon. Nå streifer han omkring i åsene rundet hjemstedet i East Tennessee, en langfingret enstøing som selger hjemmebrent og legger seg ut med folk. Et kjærestepar parkerer bilen i nærheten av Ballards tilholdssted, noe som passer Ballard bra. For selv om han ikke var skyldig i voldtekten han ble tatt for, er han en kikker. Temaet i boka er menneskelig fornedrelse.

Cormac McCarthy ble født på Rhode Island i 1933. Han debuterte med The Orchard Keeper i 1965 . til gode kritikker. Flere bøker fulgte, blant annet Child of God (1973 . norsk utg., Et Guds barn, 1989) og Blood Meridian (1985). Likevel er det nok Grensetrilogien (1992.1998) McCarthy er mest kjent for. Første bind i trilogien, Alle de vakre hestene (norsk utg. 1993), ble hans litterære gjennombrudd. Romanen ble en bestselger i USA og mottok strålende kritikker. Likeledes ble oppfølgeren Over grensen (norsk utg. 1995) en kjempesuksess. Byene på høysletten (norsk utg. 1999) utgjør siste bind.McCarthy blir ofte regnet som en «forfatterens forfatter», og bøkene hans har inspirert en rekke forfattere i USA og her hjemme. Hans prosa er hardkokt og røff . i likhet med tematikken han behandler. McCarthy skriver glassklart om personer i randsonene, både i rent geografisk og i samfunnsmessig forstand. På sitt beste resulterer dette i stor skrivekunst, så som i brorparten av Grensetrilogien.«Da boka var lest første gangen (på engelsk) etterlot den et sug og et savn, for jeg hadde vært bergtatt og nå var det slutt.»Per Petterson om Alle de vakre hestene i Klassekampen«Hvis du ikke har penger å kjøpe den for, eller et bibliotek å låne den i, så stjel den.» Nøste Kendzior om Alle de vakre hestene i NRK Kritikertorget

Screenplay for the film version of Cormac McCarthy's hit novel The Road, adapted by award-winning playwright Joe Penhall.

The original screenplay, 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.

An original screenplay by the author of No Country For Old Men, The Counselor is a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott and starring Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy's original screenplay is the story of a lawyer who is so seduced by the desire to get rich, to impress his fiancee, that he becomes involved in a risky drug-smuggling venture. His contacts in this high-stakes cocaine trade are the mysterious and probably corrupt Reiner and the seductive Malkina, so exotic her pets of choice are two cheetahs. As the action crosses the Mexican border, things become darker, more violent and more sexually disturbing than he could ever have imagined. Deft, shocking and unforgettable, this gripping tale about risk, consequence and the treacherous balance between the two reveals Cormac McCarthy at his finest.

Full of rich dialogue, Cormac McCarthy's insightful and philosophical play, The Sunset Limited, probes the deepest questions of human existence.A 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, 'Black' and 'White', as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history - mining the origins of two diametrically opposing world views, they begin a dialectic redolent of the best of Beckett. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men - though he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is to deny it. Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life. Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy is a beautifully crafted, consistently thought-provoking, and deeply intimate work by one of the most insightful writers of our time.

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