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In early 2012 it was announced that Cormac McCarthy had written an original screenplay – news which provoked huge excitement, a swift deal and the appointment of Ridley Scott to direct.
But this is no ordinary screenplay. This is a work of extraordinary imagination which draws on many of the themes of McCarthy’s work as well as taking it to new dark places. It is also written with great descriptive passages counteracting the dialogue, so the reader is given the full experience of the McCarthy prose.
It is the story of a lawyer, the Counselor, a man who is so seduced by the desire to get rich, to impress his fiancée Laura, that he becomes involved in a drug-smuggling venture that quickly takes him way out of his depth. His contacts in this are the mysterious and probably corrupt Reiner and the seductive Malkina, so exotic her pets of choice are two cheetahs. As the action crosses the Mexican border, things become darker, more violent and more sexually disturbing than the Counselor has ever imagined.
The film starring Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt will go on release in autumn 2013.
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HardCover. Pub Date :2013-09-26 Pages: 160 Language:. English An original screenplay by the great American novelist Cormac McCarthy. author of The Road and No Country for Old Men Now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox.
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"McCarthy's philosophic and erudite dialogue, vivid explosion, and intriguing characters give the story a unique vitality." --Booklist
More Praise for Cormac McCarthy: "Like the novelists he admires--Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner--Cormac McCarthy has created an imaginative oeuvre greater and deeper than any single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods themselves." --The Washington Post Book World "McCarthy's prose [is] the most laudable, his characters the most fully inhabited, his sense of place the most bloodworthy and thoroughly felt of any living writer's."--Esquire "McCarthy is one of the most richly stylized writers in American letters." --San Francisco Chronicle "McCarthy justifies the very worth of fiction in the consummate breadth and dimension of his work." --New York Post "The genius of McCarthy's work [is] in its bold, seamless melding of private revelation, cultural insight, and unabashed philosophizing." --The Village Voice "He is nothing less than our greatest living writer." --Houston Chronicle"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1447227638
- ISBN 13 9781447227632
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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