![]() Within a page, Chigurh runs loose in the world once again. Looming large in the first scene is a murderous sociopath named Anton Chigurh, a killer for hire without a conscience, who's turned himself in to a sheriff's department just to see if he can make his escape. ![]() Like the novels in the border trilogy, this story straddles the Texas-Mexico line and its still extraordinary, beautiful desert as one of McCarthy's characters, a meditative sheriff named Bell, sees it: `The raw rock mountain, shadowed in the late sun, and to the east the shimmering abscissa of the desert plains under a sky where rain curtains hung dark as soot all along the quadrant.'īut the meditative opening sequence from the point of view of Sheriff Bell hints more at hopelessness than hope. ![]() Alan Cheuse has a review of "No Country for Old Men." ![]() Writer Cormac McCarthy has a new book out, the first since the completion of his border trilogy. ![]()
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