MCCARTHY CORMAC
STELLA MARIS
ALDINA 60
Εκδότης: GUTENBERG Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0920-1929
Διαφορά από τιμή Έκδοσης -30%, φθηνότερα -€4.50 Αυτό είναι το βιβλίο της εικοσάχρονης Αλίσια Γουέστερν, σπάνιας ιδιοφυίας στα μαθηματικά, που προσέρχεται με τη θέλησή της στην ψυχιατρική κλινική Stella Maris έχοντας 40.000 δολάρια σε μια πλαστική σακούλα. Στις συνεδρίες της με τον ψυχίατρο συζητούν για τα ουσιαστικά θέματα της ζωής της: τα μαθηματικά, τη φιλοσοφία, τη μουσική, τον θεό, τον θάνατο, το ζήτημα της αλήθειας, αλλά και για τον αδελφό της Μπόμπι Γουέστερν. Το Stella Maris, το δεύτερο μέρος του μυθιστορηματικού δίπτυχου που ξεκίνησε με τον Επιβάτη (Aldina - 59), ολοκληρώνει τη ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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ΤΕΚΝΟ ΤΟΥ ΘΕΟΥ
ALDINA 72
Εκδότης: GUTENBERG Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0920-1979
Διαφορά από τιμή Έκδοσης -10%, φθηνότερα -€1.40 Ο Μπάλαρντ, φτωχός αγρότης, χάνει το σπίτι και τη γη του, και μαζί τον όποιο σύνδεσμο είχε με τους ανθρώπους γύρω του. Χωρίς εφόδια, χωρίς δουλειά, χωρίς χρήματα, περιφέρεται, στα δάση. Διαπράττει απλές κλοπές αλλά και εγκλήματα, μη διστάζοντας ακόμα και πανανθρώπινα ταμπού να παραβιάσει. Με φόντο το άγριο τοπίο του Τενεσί, ο αναγνώστης τον παρακολουθεί σ' αυτόν τον κατήφορο, ενώ η αφήγηση διακόπτεται από προφορικές μαρτυρίες κατοίκων της περιοχής, που προσπαθούν να βρουν μια αιτία για τις πράξεις του, αλλά δείχνουν και όλη τη σκληρότητά τ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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Ο επιβάτης
Aldina 59
Εκδότης: GUTENBERG Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0920-1919
Διαφορά από τιμή Έκδοσης -30%, φθηνότερα -€7.20 Αυτό είναι το βιβλίο του Μπόμπι Γουέστερν, ενός ιδιοφυούς φυσικού πού εγκατέλειψε μια πολλά υποσχόμενη καριέρα κι έγινε δύτης διάσωσης. Τον στοιχειώνει διαρκώς η εικόνα του πεθαμένου πατέρα του (μέλους της ομάδας πού εφηύρε την ατομική βόμβα), ενώ μεγάλη οδύνη τού προκαλεί και η σκέψη της αδελφής του Αλίσια. Όταν βουτά για να εντοπίσει ένα αεροπλάνο πού έπεσε στη θάλασσα και τούς δέκα επιβάτες του, βρίσκει μόνο εννιά. Από κει κι έπειτα περίεργα πράγματα αρχίζουν να του συμβαίνουν: φίλοι του εξαφανίζονται, τον παρακολουθεί το FBI, μπλοκάρετ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE CROSSING
Εκδότης: PICADOR Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3484-0270
Set along the US-Mexico border of the 1940s, Cormac McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy continues with The Crossing, a coming-of-age western set parallel to the events of All the Pretty Horses. Sixteen-year-old Billy Parham and his younger brother Boyd are 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 from where it came. On his return, he will find himself - and his world - irrevocably changed.... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Εκδότης: PICADOR Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3484-0053
Savage violence and cruel morality reign in the backwater deserts of Cormac McCarthy's ninth novel 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, ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE ROAD
Εκδότης: PICADOR Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3484-0300
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 landscape is destroyed, nothing moves save the ash on the wind and 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. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Road is an incandescent novel, the story of a remarkable a... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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Αιματοβαμμένος μεσημβρινός ή το δειλινό κοκκίνισμα στη δύση
Aldina 84
Εκδότης: GUTENBERG Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0920-2043
Διαφορά από τιμή Έκδοσης -10%, φθηνότερα -€2.50 Ο αναγνώστης του Αιματοβαμμένου μεσημβρινού θα δεχτεί ένα χαστούκι στο πρόσωπο" (The New York Times). "Κανείς άλλος Αμερικανός μυθιστοριογράφος δεν μας έχει δώσει ένα τόσο δυνατό και αλησμόνητο βιβλίο όσο τον Αιματοβαμμένο μεσημβρινό" (Harold Bloom). Ένας δεκατετράχρονος από το Τενεσί, που αναφέρεται απλώς ως το παιδί, περιπλανιέται στα σύνορα του Τέξας με το Μεξικό στα μέσα του 19ου αιώνα. Όταν θα συναντηθεί με την διαβόητη συμμορία Γκλάντον, θα γίνει μάρτυρας απίστευτων ωμοτήτων που θα τον οδηγήσουν σε μια οδυνηρή καταβύθιση στα απώτατα ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE ORCHARD KEEPER
Εκδότης: PICADOR Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3484-0155
Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is a classic from one of America's finest and most celebrated authors. It tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father. Cormac McCarthy's debut novel is a magnificent evocation of an American landscape, and of a lost American time. (From the publisher) - "There isn't anyone remotely like him in contemporary American literatu... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE BORDER TRILOGY
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, THE CROSSING, CITIES OF THE PLAIN
Εκδότης: PICADOR Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3484-0075
With an introduction by novelist Rachel Kushner In 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 t... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) BLOOD MERIDIAN
Εκδότης: PICADOR Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3484-0152
The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell isn't 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 ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) CHILD OF GOD
Εκδότης: PICADOR Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3484-0153
By 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 ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(H/B) THE BORDER TRILOGY
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, THE CROSSING, CITIES OF THE PLAIN
Εκδότης: EVERYMAN΄S LIBRARY Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 1669-0256
This handsome edition of McCarthy's completed Border Trilogy in one volume gives the reader one of the most important works of American fiction of the last decades. McCarthy's work is far more than a western, but crosses the borders between fiction and philosophy, the real and the world of dream. With influences ranging from the traditional western; the coming-of-age story; the courtly romance; classical tragedy; and magical realism, McCarthy's masterpiece is a work to be read and read again. This new volume containing all three of the nov... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) ALL THE PRETTY HORSES
Εκδότης: PICADOR Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3484-0074
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. The first volume in McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy, All The Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about the passing of ch... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) SUTTREE
Εκδότης: PICADOR Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3484-0126
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive dereliction and destitution with dignity. (From the publisher)... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE PASSENGER
Εκδότης: PICADOR Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3484-0441
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... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) STELLA MARIS
Εκδότης: PICADOR Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3484-0440
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. (From the publisher)... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) CITIES OF THE PLAIN
Εκδότης: PICADOR Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3484-0271
Two men marked by boyhood adventures now stand together, forced to confront a country changing beyond recognition. Cities of the Plain brings Cormac McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy to its brutal, inevitable conclusion. 1952, New Mexico. John Grady Cole, last seen in All the Pretty Horses, works as a ranch hands alongside Billy Parnham, of The Crossing. These are the dying days of the American frontier. From the north, the military encroaches upon the ranch. To the south are the mountains of Mexico, the pull of which prove irresistible ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) THE GARDENER'S SON
Εκδότης: PAN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3321-0223
The first screenplay by Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road. 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 ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) Outer Dark
( Picador Collection)
Εκδότης: PICADOR Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3484-0154
By the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, Outer Dark is a novel at once mythic and starkly evocative, set in an unspecified place in Appalachia sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother’s child, a boy; the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother’s lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apo... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) STELLA MARIS
(EXPORT EDITION)
Εκδότης: PICADOR Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3484-0415
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. (From the publisher)... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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