Work · Novel · 2005

No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy, author

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Units: 13 numbered sections
isbn: 0-375-40677-8

A 1980 West Texas manhunt begins when a welder finds $2.4 million at the site of a failed drug deal and keeps it. Thirteen numbered sections, each opened by an aging sheriff's italicized first-person reckoning with a violence he no longer recognizes, follow the money, the killer sent to recover it, and the lawman who cannot catch either of them in time.

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Novel 2005 → Film 2007 · Direct adaptationNo Country for Old MenJoel and Ethan Coen's film keeps 22 of the novel's 24 mapped beats, moves Sheriff Bell's italicized monologues into dialogue, and replaces the hitchhiker subplot and Carla Jean's coin call with a motel-pool encounter for Moss and a refusal for Carla Jean.82composite · editorial

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