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Blood Meridian: Picador Classic (English Edition)

Blood Meridian: Picador Classic (English Edition) di Cormac McCarthy Picador

With an introduction by Philipp Meyer The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint 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 ...

The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister (English Edition)

The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister (English Edition) di Cathy Rentzenbrink Picador

A Richard and Judy Book club selection. In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school. Sitting by his unconscious body in hospital, holding his hand and watching his heartbeat on the monitors, Cathy and her parents willed him to survive. They ...

The Border Trilogy (English Edition)

The Border Trilogy (English Edition) di Cormac McCarthy Picador

Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning, bestselling trio of novels chronicles the coming-of-age of two young men in the south west of America. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys of the old school, are poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Their journeys across the border into Mexico, each an adventure fraught with fear and pain, mark a passage into adulthood, and ...