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Achever cette louve prisonnière du piège qu'il a posé est au-dessus des forces de Billy. Sa décision est prise : il quittera le ranch familial pour la ramener sur sa terre natale. De l'Arizona au Mexique, la route est longue et périlleuse. Il faut franchir la frontière, le grand passage, et pénétrer dans un monde de hors-la-loi, où la révolution gronde... Le moment est venu de faire face à la sauvagerie des hommes.

Le Grand Passage

Le Sud américain, dans les années cinquante. Aux marges de la société, l'alcoolisme et la misère se répandent. Sorti de prison, considéré comme un raté par sa famille, Suttree vit tant bien que mal sur les berges de la rivière Tennessee, dans la banlieue de Knoxville. A travers ses errances, ce sont les voix de tous les laissés-pour-compte de la société américaine qui se font entendre. Celles des repris de justice, des vieux paysans désabusés, des chômeurs de tous bords, des prêtres évangélistes ou des clochards qui sillonnent les routes. Des voix qui donnent à ce roman, auquel Cormac MacCarthy a travaillé pendant près de vingt ans, une force et une émotion extraordinaires.

Suttree

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard - a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape - haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.

Un enfant de Dieu

Brutally violent, Blood Meridian is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert land. It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.'[A] brilliant, uncompromising work of fiction - imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided by Satan, wrote a western' - The TimesThrough 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. A group known as the Glanton gang hunt Indigenous Americans, collecting scalps as their bloody trophies. At the centre of this violence stands Judge Holden: a massive, hairless man, mysterious if not supernatural, erudite and cold-blooded. He is singularly extreme in his sadistic violence. But the apparent chaos is not without order - the Glanton gang, too, are stalked as prey. Read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form, it is a powerful, mesmerizing and savagely beautiful novel - and one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century.'In Blood Meridian, McCarthy reaches the peak of his style: spare and ornate at once, repetitious but endlessly readable' - GuardianPraise 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 MountainPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

Blood Meridian

Parce que l'Amérique d'après-guerre condamne leurs rêves d'aventures, John Grady Cole et Lacey Rawlins quittent le Texas et chevauchent vers le Mexique. Les deux adolescents partent vivre ailleurs, pour célébrer avec une nature intacte des noces éternelles. Mais ce voyage initiatique, plein d'espoirs et de révélations, se transforme en descente aux enfers...

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CITIES OF THE PLAIN

A 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. 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. The Road made me cry for days' - Emma Donoghue, author of Room'[T]he most important environmental book ever written' - George Monbiot, author of Feral and Regenesis

The Road

L'apocalypse a eu lieu.Le monde est dévasté, couvert de cendres. Un père et son fils errent sur une route, poussant un caddie rempli d'objets hétéroclites et de vieilles couvertures. Ils sont sur leurs gardes car le danger peut surgir à tout moment. Ils affrontent la pluie, la neige, le froid. Et ce qui reste d'une humanité retournée à la barbarie. Cormac McCarthy raconte leur odyssée dans ce récit dépouillé à l'extrême. Prix Pulitzer 2007, La Route s'est vendu à plus de deux millions d'exemplaires aux États-Unis.

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