Cormac McCarthy
2) Suttree
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English
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The story or Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there - a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters - he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.
3) The road
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English
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In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
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Passenger novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"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...
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
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English
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Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.
6) Stella Maris
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Passenger novels volume 2
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English
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"Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, 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...
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 3
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English
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A Texas cowboy falls in love with a Mexican prostitute, only to discover he has a rival, her pimp. The pimp refuses to let her go because he will lose money and the stage is set for a violent confrontation.
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English
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The acclaimed first novel from one of America's most celebrated novelists, the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road Set is a remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it is the story of a young boy and a bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father. The boy, John Wesley Rattner, and the outlaw, Marion Sylder—together with Rattner's ...
9) Child of God
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English
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Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man, falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail, preying on the population with his strange lusts.
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English
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Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of desperados, with a particular focus on one, "the kid," a boy of fourteen.
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"El pasajero: 1980, Mississippi. Son las tres de la madrugada cuando Bobby Western se sumerge en el mar del golfo de M�exico con su traje de neopreno e ilumina el avi�on hundido con la linterna de buceo: nueve cuerpos con el cintur�on de seguridad a�un abrochado. Faltan la caja negra y el d�ecimo pasajero. Pero �c�omo es posible? Testigo colateral de maquinaciones que solo pueden perjudicarle, Bobby se ve ensombrecido en cuerpo y esp�iritu...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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In Graniteville, South Carolina, two families shelter their lives in the shadows of the great cotton mill: the wealthy Greggs, owners of the mill and scions of the local society; and the working-class McEvoys, who tend the gardens and work the plant floor. Robert McEvoy is forced to have his leg amputated during an incident which is rumored to have been caused by the son of the mill's founder. When Robert bitterly leaves Graniteville and returns two...
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
℗2010, ©2006.
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English
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An encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. The two men begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing worldviews.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Ever since the publication of his first essay collection, The Broken Estate, in 1999, James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking world. His essays on canonical writers (Gustav Flaubert, Herman Melville), recent legends (Don DeLillo, Marilynne Robinson) and significant contemporaries (Zadie Smith, Elena Ferrante) have established a standard for informed and incisive appreciation, composed in a distinctive...
15) The road
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A father and his son are two of the last remaining people on earth after an unexplained tragedy has destroyed most of life. As the two head south, they are faced with many trials and tribulations along the way. An intense bond between the father and son is formed as together they strive to not only survive, but to retain humanity as they help the people they encounter along the way.
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