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  1. 3 days ago · Plot. In 1980, hitman Anton Chigurh is arrested in Texas. He escapes by strangling the sheriff's deputy and steals a car by killing the driver with a captive bolt pistol. Later, he spares the life of a gas station owner for correctly calling a coin toss and is later hired to recover the money.

  2. 1 day ago · No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, who had originally written the story as a screenplay. The story occurs in the vicinity of the Mexico–United States border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert back country.

  3. Jul 7, 2024 · American thriller novel No Country for Old Men was originally published by Alfred A. Knopf. In 1980, near the Texas-Mexico border, Vietnam veteran and welder Llewellyn Moss stumbles across a pickup truck containing drugs and $2 million in cash, surrounded by dead bodies.

  4. Jul 9, 2024 · Last year, when I heard the news that Cormac McCarthy had died in Santa Fe at the age of 89, I reread No Country for Old Men. He owed the title of the book to Yeats’s poem “Sailing to Byzantium”—perhaps the best ever written about growing old.

  5. Jul 2, 2024 · No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western crime thriller film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The story revolves around Llewelyn Moss, who stumbles upon a substantial amount of money in the Texas desert, triggering a violent pursuit involving a methodical killer and the local sheriff.

  6. 4 days ago · Synopsis. Written in 1926 (when Yeats was 60 or 61), "Sailing to Byzantium" is Yeats' definitive statement about the agony of old age and the imaginative and spiritual work required to remain a vital individual even when the heart is "fastened to a dying animal" (the body).

  7. Jul 5, 2024 · No Country for Old Men tells the story of Texas redneck Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) who discovers the remnants of a botched drug deal in the desert. A load of heroin and a suitcase containing two million dollars still lie among the dead men.