No Country for Old Men

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005 First edition, Advance Reader's Edition. Publisher's pictorial red wrappers designed by Chip Kidd, with additional black promotional flap lettered in white. About fine, with a hint of rubbing to right margin of front wrapper, and a small crease to bottom right corner of front wrapper. With Knopf Borzoi Reader ARC bookmark laid in. Overall, a very sharp copy. No Country for Old Men is a novel about a fouled-up illegal drug deal in rural Texas along the border of the United States and Mexico that develops into a game of cat-and-mouse among the novel's main characters. As the novel progresses and "the pursuit stretches up and down and across the border," the main characters are, as the dust jacket explains, "seemingly determined to answer the question they each ask each other: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?" No Country for Old Men is celebrated for McCarthy's eloquent prose and lauded by some as the author's best novel. The novel takes its title from William Butler Yeats' poem "Sailing to Byzantium," which was first published in his 1928 collection of poetry The Tower. In 2007, the Coen Brothers adapted No Country for Old Men into a popular film starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).