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Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas--Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. 'Cormac McCarthy's violent lyric masterpiece, Blood Meridian acquires an amoral, apocalyptic dimension through the Miltonic grandeur of the language ...It is a barbarously poetic odyssey through a hell without purpose' Irish Times 'McCarthy's achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect ...He is a great writer' Independent 'A bloody and starkly beautiful tale' Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times.
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Lacná kniha The Road (-70%)
A father and his young son walk alone through burned and ruined America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and those living off it, or trying to. They have nothing but a pistol to defend the
mselves against the surviving stalkers of the road, the clothes they are wearing, a shopping cart of scavenged food and each other, living out a poetic nightmare that is both heartless and heartfelt.
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All the Pretty Horses
All the Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and vanished American age.
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7,69 €
Lacná kniha The Road (-10%)
A father and his young son walk alone through burned and ruined America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and those living off it, or trying to. They have nothing but a pistol to defend the
mselves against the surviving stalkers of the road, the clothes they are wearing, a shopping cart of scavenged food and each other, living out a poetic nightmare that is both heartless and heartfelt.
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5,36 €
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Cities of the Plain
Cities of the Plain, the final volume of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, binds together the separate tales of John Grady Cole from All the Pretty Horses and Billy Parham from The Crossing to create a more realistic Billy and a more mythic John Grady. Within the confines of a relatively spare 293 pages, the classic "all-american cowboy" John Grady devotes himself to saving every hurt or wounded creature that crosses his path, a noble and impossible task that leads ultimately to his own destruction. The tragedy of his failed rescue of the epilectic prostitute Magdalena makes a martyr of the near-faultless John Grady, yet McCarthy stubbornly refuses to let the novel backslide into blubbery melodrama. Told in both McCarthy's signature lyrical style and his dead-on ranchero dialogue, Cities of the Plain ends the trilogy at the height of McCarthy's storytelling skill.
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7,23 €
Lacná kniha The Road (-50%)
A father and his young son walk alone through burned and ruined America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and those living off it, or trying to. They have nothing but a pistol to defend the
mselves against the surviving stalkers of the road, the clothes they are wearing, a shopping cart of scavenged food and each other, living out a poetic nightmare that is both heartless and heartfelt.
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2,98 €
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All the Pretty Horses
John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
All the Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece from Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy, and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival.
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17,47 €
The Road
A father and his young son walk alone through burned and ruined America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and those living off it, or trying to. They have nothing but a pistol to defend the
mselves against the surviving stalkers of the road, the clothes they are wearing, a shopping cart of scavenged food and each other, living out a poetic nightmare that is both heartless and heartfelt.
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5,95 €
Lacná kniha Cities of the Plain (-50%)
Cities of the Plain, the final volume of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, binds together the separate tales of John Grady Cole from All the Pretty Horses and Billy Parham from The Crossing to create a more realistic Billy and a more mythic John Grady. Within the confines of a relatively spare 293 pages, the classic "all-american cowboy" John Grady devotes himself to saving every hurt or wounded creature that crosses his path, a noble and impossible task that leads ultimately to his own destruction. The tragedy of his failed rescue of the epilectic prostitute Magdalena makes a martyr of the near-faultless John Grady, yet McCarthy stubbornly refuses to let the novel backslide into blubbery melodrama. Told in both McCarthy's signature lyrical style and his dead-on ranchero dialogue, Cities of the Plain ends the trilogy at the height of McCarthy's storytelling skill.
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3,62 €
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Cesta
Na vyprahnutú zem sa zniesla ďalšia vrstva prachu a popola. Kýpte stromov sa striedajú s ruinami civilizácie. Mŕtvi nemo svedčia o bolesti a bezmocnosti, poslední živí sa nezastavia pred ničím, ani pred kanibalizmom. Sivé nebo so sivým slnkom čoraz častejšie prekrýva čierny studený dážď. Jediná možnosť uniknúť smrti je cesta – na juh. Desivá realita postapokalyptického románu Cormaca McCarthyho o putovaní otca a syna krajinou spustošenou kataklizmou. McCarthy s majstrovskou jednoduchosťou predstavuje svet, v ktorom prestali platiť hodnoty civilizácie a cenu má len to, čo pomôže prežiť ďalší deň. Uprostred nepriateľskej krajiny sa rozvíja nádherný ľudský cit, krehké, a pritom pevné puto medzi otcom a synom. Románový príbeh o láske, obetavosti a nádeji, ktorý stvorili nemilosrdne drsné podmienky, získal roku 2007 Pulitzerovou cenu.
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9,95 €
Dítě Boží
Hlavním protagonistou románu je Lester Ballard, vrah a nekrofil, kterého společnost vyloučila ze svého středu a který žije v podzemním labyrintu jeskyní se svými trofejemi - plyšáky, které si vystřílel na poutích, a s rozkládajícími se mrtvolami svých obě
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14,19 €
Lacná kniha La Route (-90%)
L'apocalypse a eu lieu. Le monde est dévasté, couvert de cendres et de cadavres. Parmi les survivants, un p?re et son fils errent sur une route, poussant un Caddie rempli d'objets hétéroclites. Dans la pluie, la neige et le froid, ils avancent vers les côtes du Sud, la peur au ventre: des hordes de sauvages cannibales terrorisent ce qui reste de l'humanité. Survivront-ils ? leur voyage?
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1,02 €
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Cesta CD
herec, ale také překladatel, autor a režisér. Uplatňuje se rovněž jako textař, bohatá je jeho spolupráce s rozhlasem. Účinkuje v televizních inscenacích (Vernisáž, Zítra to spustíme) a českých filmech (Šakalí léta 1993, Golet v údolí 1995, Hanele 1999, Mistři 2004). Nahrávka vznikla podle knihy Cormaca McCarthyho Cesta vydané v roce 2008 nakladatelstvím Argo / z anglického originálu The Road vydaného nakladatelstvím Alfred A. Knopf v New Yorku přeložil Jiří Hrubý / hudba Petr Kofroň / ilustrace na obálce Jozef Gertli Danglár / zvuk, střih a mastering Tomáš Gsöllhofer / design Libor Batrla a Ondřej Fučík / nahrálo vydavatelství Tympanum ve spolupráci s nakladatelstvím Argo v Praze v říjnu 2009 ve studiu DAMU / Vydání podpořilo Velvyslanectví USA v Praze Čte: Jiří Ornest Režie: Petr Mančal
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13,49 €
The Road
Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2007, this is the story of a father and son walking alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. It has been hailed as: 'the first great masterpiece of the globally warmed-generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature . . . An absolutely wonderful book that people will be reading for generations' Andrew O’Hagan
Harvey Weinstein's film is to be released in the UK on 16 January 2009 with an all-star cast including Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Robert Duvall and introducing major new young talent, Kodi Smit McPhee with a soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
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8,27 €
Všichni krásní koně
Za tento román (první díl tzv. Hraniční trilogie) získal autor v roce 1993 Národní knižní cenu i Národní cenu literární kritiky a rázem se zařadil mezi špičku nejlepších amerických prozaiků.
Kniha představuje ten druh prózy, který má v americké literatuře dlouhou a pevnou tradici – román zasvěcení. Je protipólem akčních velkoměstských zalidněných a upovídaných příběhů. Román je zasazen do roku 1949 – zdánlivě neaktuální doby. Šestnáctiletý John Grady Cole a jeho kamarád Lacy Rawlins utečou na koních ze svého domova v Texasu a vydají se do Mexika. Po cestě se k nim přidá ještě jeden o něco mladší kluk a všichni tři jedou přes poušť, vstříc svému dospělému věku, každý po svém. Hlavní morální i romantický hrdina John Grady Cole si na cestě k dospělosti vyzkouší hned několik rolí najednou: kamaráda, „otce“ i milence.
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16,45 €
Všichni krásní koně
Román současného amerického autora, který obdržel Národní knižní cenu za rok 1992. Jeho děj je zasazen do roku 1949. Vypráví cestu tří mladíků z Texasu do Mexika a také vstříc dospělému věku.
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6,32 €
