Le corps d'une jeune fille abandonné dans la neige, l'épave d'un avion échoué au fond des eaux, un homme en fuite. Autant d'images qui illuminent le nouveau roman de Cormac McCarthy. Des rues de La Nouvelle-Orléans aux plages d'Ibiza, son héros, Bobby Western, conjugue sa mélancolie à tous les temps.
Cet homme d'action est aussi un mathématicien et un physicien, deux disciplines qu'il a abandonnées après la mort de sa soeur Alicia, disparue mystérieusement dix ans plus tôt. Hanté par la culpabilité, Western trouvera-t-il enfin le repos ?
Roman noir, histoire d'une passion, Le Passager est aussi une parabole sur le déracinement de l'homme moderne.
À quatre-vingt-dix ans, Cormac McCarthy nous surprend une fois de plus par son audace. Entre une conversation sur la physique quantique, un traité de la solitude et la description d'une tempête dans le golfe du Mexique, il se joue des conventions et demeure l'un des romanciers les plus singuliers de notre époque.
L'apocalypse a eu lieu. Le monde est dévasté, couvert de cendres et de cadavres. Parmi les survivants, un père 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 à leur voyage ?
« Ces formidables pages ont l'odeur du bois brûlé, de la poussière et du cuir ».
L'Humanité.
Parce que l'Amérique d'après-guerre condamne leurs rêves d'aventures, John Grady Cole et Lacey Rawlins quittent le Texas et chevauchent vers le Mexique. Les deux adolescents veulent s'établir ailleurs, au plus près de la nature et des chevaux - un idéal de vie qui leur semble encore possible au-delà de la frontière. Mais ce voyage initiatique, plein d'espoirs et de révélations, se transforme en descente aux enfers.
Une somptueuse épopée récompensée par le National Book Award.
John Grady Cole et Billy Parham se retrouvent dans un ranch du Nouveau-Mexique. Toujours en quête du mythique Far Ouest d'autrefois, ils arpentent les grands espaces encore vierges de l'Ouest sauvage. Mais quand John Grady décide de passer la frontière pour aller kidnapper la jeune prostituée mexicaine dont il s'est épris, ses rêves d'amour et de liberté se heurtent aux forces inéluctables de la réalité...
Achever cette louve prisonnière du piège qu'il a posé est au-dessus des forces de Billy. Il quitte le ranch familial pour la ramener sur sa terre natale. De l'Arizona au Mexique, la route est longue et périlleuse. Il faut franchir la frontière, le grand passage, et pénétrer dans un monde de hors-la-loi, où la révolution gronde... Le moment est venu de faire face à la sauvagerie des hommes.
« Dehors s'étendent des terres sombres retournées piquées de lambeaux de neige et plus sombres au loin des bois où s'abritent encore les derniers loups. » Après avoir fui la hutte paternelle au Tennessee, un garçon de quatorze ans, dit le Gamin, s'enrôle dans une bande de hors-la-loi payés au scalp. Ces soldats de fortune pillent, brûlent et tuent, menés par le Capitaine Glanton et son second, le Juge, géant surhumain au savoir encyclopédique. Arrivés au Colorado, ils sont décimés par les survivants d'Indiens Yumas. Un long affrontement commence alors entre le Juge et le Gamin, au pied des dunes de la Vallée de la Mort.
Méridien de sang est une équipée sauvage et tragique, sur laquelle plane l'ombre d'Edgar Allan Poe. Cormac McCarthy y déploie sa vision de l'Amérique, hantée par la violence des hommes et la question du Mal.
A la frontière du Texas, Moss découvre un carnage : un homme à moitié mort, d'autres déjà froids, des armes, de l'héroïne et deux millions de dollars. La tentation est trop forte. Mais on ne vole pas impunément des narco trafiquants. Moss devient l'objet d'une impitoyable chasse à l'homme. A ses trousses, un vieux shérif et un tueur psychopathe de la pire espèce...
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot''s flightbag, the plane''s black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit - by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul. Traversing the American South, from the garrulous bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.
Depuis sa sortie de prison, Suttree vit sur les berges de la rivière Tennessee, dans la banlieue de Knoxville. Ses errances, imbibées d'alcool, le mènent dans les marges de la société américaine des années 1950 : celle des repris de justice, des vieux paysans désabusés, des chômeurs de tous bords, des prêtres évangélistes et des clochards qui sillonnent les routes.
Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Guillemette Belleteste et Isabelle Reinharez.
Achever cette louve prisonnière du piège qu'il a posé est au-dessus des forces de Billy. Il quitte le ranch familial pour la ramener sur sa terre natale. De l'Arizona au Mexique, la route est longue et périlleuse. Il faut franchir la frontière, le grand passage, et pénétrer dans un monde de hors-la-loi, où la révolution gronde... Le moment est venu de faire face à la sauvagerie des hommes.
B>The best-selling, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God./b>br>br>b>Look for Stella Maris, the second volume in The Passenger series, on sale November 22nd, 2022/b>br>br>1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilots flightbag, the planes black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit--by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul.br> br>Traversing the American South, from the garrulous barrooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.
John Grady Cole et Billy Parham se retrouvent dans un ranch du Nouveau-Mexique. Toujours en quête du mythique Far Ouest d'autrefois, ils arpentent les grands espaces encore vierges de l'Ouest sauvage. Mais quand John Grady décide de passer la frontière pour aller kidnapper la jeune prostituée mexicaine dont il s'est épris, ses rêves d'amour et de liberté se heurtent aux forces inéluctables de la réalité...
B>b>The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize/b>b>winning author of The Road /b>b>returns with the second of a two-volume masterpiece: Stella Maris/b> b>is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence./b>/b>br>br>1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she recalls a childhood where, by the age of seven, her own grandmother feared for her; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, not quite dead, not quite hers. Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicias psychiatric sessions, Stella Maris is a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda to The Passenger, a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.;br>;
B>Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, No Country For Old Men is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road./b>Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
The post-apocalyptic modern classic with an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing moves save the ash on the wind and cruel, lawless men stalk the roadside, lying in wait. Attempting to survive in this brave new world, the young boy and his protector have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves. They must keep walking. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Road is an incandescent novel, the story of a remarkable and profoundly moving journey. In this unflinching study of the best and worst of humankind, Cormac McCarthy boldly divines a future without hope, but one in which, miraculously, this young family finds tenderness. An exemplar of post-apocalyptic writing, The Road is a true modern classic, a masterful, moving and increasingly prescient novel. This edition is part of the Picador Collection, a new list of the best in contemporary literature published in Picador''s 50th Anniversary year. McCarthy''s eagerly anticipated new novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris , will be published by Picador in October 2022.
Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, No Country For Old Men is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road . Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? This edition is part of the Picador Collection, a new list of the best in contemporary literature published in Picador''s 50th Anniversary year. McCarthy''s eagerly anticipated new novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris , will be published by Picador in October 2022.
Parce que l'Amérique d'après guerre condamne leurs rêves d'aventures, John Grady Cole et Lacey Rawlins quittent le Texas et chevauchent vers le Mexique. Les deux adolescents partent vivre ailleurs, pour célébrer avec une nature intacte des noces éternelles. Mais ce voyage initiatique, plein d'espoirs et de révélations, se transforme en descente aux enfers.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged, nuclear landscape save the ash on the wind. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food - and each other. This title imagines a future in which no hope remains.
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. The first volume in McCarthy''s legendary Border Trilogy, All The Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece 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. This edition is part of the Picador Collection, a new list of the best in contemporary literature published in Picador''s 50th Anniversary year. McCarthy''s eagerly anticipated new novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris , will be published by Picador in October 2022.
The Crossing forms the second part of Cormac McCarthy''s critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, a story that began with All the Pretty Horses and concludes with Cities of the Plain . Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World War, Cormac McCarthy''s The Crossing follows the fortunes of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham and his younger brother Boyd. Fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family''s property, Billy captures the animal - but rather than kill it, sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to where it came from. When Billy comes back to his own home he finds himself and his world irrevocably changed. His loss of innocence has come at a price, and once again the border beckons with its desolate beauty and cruel promise. '' The Crossing is like a river in full spate: beautiful and dangerous'' The Times This edition is part of the Picador Collection, a new list of the best in contemporary literature published in Picador''s 50th Anniversary year. McCarthy''s eagerly anticipated new novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris , will be published by Picador in October 2022.
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 landscape of the Texas-Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept-up in the relentless tide of blood. But the apparent chaos is not without its order: while Americans hunt Indians - collecting scalps as their bloody trophies - they too are stalked as prey. Since its first publication in 1985, Blood Meridian has been read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form. Powerful and savagely beautiful, it has emerged as one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century. A truly mesmerising classic. ''A bloody and starkly beautiful tale'' Sunday Times ''Unlike anything I have read in recent years, an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement'' John Banville
Les appalaches en été, la pauvreté, une cahute délabrée à la lisière d'une forêt, un couple incestueux, frère et soeur, et pour finir un nourrisson abandonné au milieu des bois voilà posés les éléments d'une tragédie à laquelle, un à un, de nouveaux personnages vont s'ajouter, au fil d'une errance désespérée.
Cormac mccarthy met en scène, avec une incroyable virtuosité, des êtres frustes et illettrés, et donne à voir la misère du vieux sud américain dans une langue lyrique et baroque. cette fable sur le bien et le mal, sur l'innocence livrée à la violence et au péché, est d'une force exceptionnelle.
In Cities of the Plain , two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn again and again, in this story of friendships and passion, to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable. ''In a lovely and terrible landscape of natural beauty and impending loss we find John Grady; a young cowboy of the old school, trusted by men and horses, and a fragile young woman, whose salvation becomes his obsession . . . McCarthy makes the sweeping plains a miracle'' Scotsman ''This haunting, deeply felt novel completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990s'' Daily Telegraph ''The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature'' Guardian This edition is part of the Picador Collection, a new list of the best in contemporary literature published in Picador''s 50th Anniversary year. McCarthy''s eagerly anticipated new novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris , will be published by Picador in October 2022.
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