Cormac McCarthy
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"Set in Graniteville, in post-Civil War South Carolina, this book is a tale of privilege and hardship, animosity and vengeance brought to life through two families: the Greggs, the wealthy owners of a cotton mill, and their employees the McEvoys, a father and son beset by misfortune. After Robert McEvoy loses his leg in an accident-- rumored to have been caused by his nemesis James Gregg, the son of the mill's founder-- the angry and bitter young...
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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 boy, John Wesley Rattner, and...
3) Outer dark
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English
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From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • A novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century.
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone...
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone...
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English
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On the eve of his marriage, the Counselor makes a risky decision to dealve into the cocaine trade along the Texas-Mexico border. His hope is that this one-time deal will set him and his fiancée on a path to financial freedom, but instead he ends up in a brutal game that threatens to destroy everything and everyone he loves.
5) 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.
7) La carretera
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Literatura Mondadori volume 338
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Español
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America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.
Esta novela "transcurre en la...
10) The counselor
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English
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A lawyer makes a risky entrance into the drug trade, and gambles that the consequences won't catch up with him.
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Polish
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Anty-mitologia Dzikiego Zachodu O książce Oparta na autentycznych wydarzeniach z połowy XIX wieku historia czternasto- letniego chłopca, który pewnego dnia ucieka z domu od owdowiałego ojca pijaka i wyrusza na Południe. Wkracza na drogę, która przypomina podróż Dantego w głąb Piekła. To czasy bezlitosnej masakry Indian, ciemne karty w historii Ameryki, naznaczone przemocą i bezprawiem.
Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern...
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Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Texas/Mexico border when he stumbles upon several dead men, a big stash of heroin, and more than two million dollars in cash. He takes off with the money--and the hunter becomes the hunted. A drug cartel hires a former Special Forces agent to track down the loot, and a ruthless killer joins the chase as well. Also looking for Moss is the aging Sheriff Bell, a World War II veteran who may be Moss' only hope...
15) Droga
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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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Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Texas/Mexico border when he stumbles upon several dead men, a big stash of heroin, and more than two million dollars in cash. He takes off with the money--and the hunter becomes the hunted. A drug cartel hires a former Special Forces agent to track down the loot, and a ruthless killer joins the chase as well. Also looking for Moss is the aging Sheriff Bell, a World War II veteran who may be Moss' only hope...
20) Rącze konie
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Border trilogy volume cz. 1
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Polish
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Na drugim brzegu Rio Grande zaczyna się przygoda, i można tam znaleźć szczęście i wielką miłość. Ale może też być inaczej. Dla trójki młodocianych uciekinierów z południa Stanów Zjednoczonych Meksyk -- dziki, bezkresny, romantyczny -- staje się krainą, w której za marzenia trzeba płacić krwią, a bycie kowbojem oznacza najczęściej kłopoty z prawem. Rącze konie są opowieścią o dojrzewaniu, utraconej niewinności, pierwszych...