◆入選2005年《紐約時報》百大好書！
◆2008年原著改編電影《險路勿近》獲奧斯卡金像獎「最佳影片」、「最佳導演」、「最佳男配角」、「最佳改編劇本」四項大獎！
◆影響未來100年小說《長路》（電影《末路浩劫》原著）作者戈馬克．麥卡錫創作原點！
在這法條、紀律、正義淪喪的世界，面對毫無道理、緣由不明的兇徒、惡意和殺戮行為，我們能否保有足夠的善念去抵擋？能否以絕對的勇氣來保護所愛的人？
戈馬克．麥卡錫的《長路》外冷內熱，它深情敘述：外在世界縱然冰冷絕望，內在核心卻點了一盞不滅的溫暖之火。《險路》卻丟出了截然不同、外熱內冷的吶喊：我們該如何面對巨大的誘惑、自身的貪婪？如何應對外來的邪惡、內在的恐懼？
麥卡錫運用簡潔文字所建構的畫面緊湊逼人，每翻開下一頁，便顛覆你所有猜想，字字句句迴響關於人性極致的洪鐘般的叩問……
羅倫，一個如同你我的凡人，難以抵抗誘惑，時常想與上天一賭自己的運氣。
齊哥，一個原則分明、堅持殺戮也有其哲學思辯的變態殺手，所到之處不留活口。
一絲善念演變成難以挽回的錯誤，一場獵殺之戰就此在美墨邊境上演。
老警長貝爾即使力不從心，卻無法拋棄一心想守護的人民。孤單無援的他是否真能穿透深沉恐怖的血幕，將善念的火炬傳予後人？

The Road follows an unnamed father and son journeying together across a grim post-apocalyptic landscape, some years after a great, unexplained cataclysm has destroyed civilization and almost all life on Earth. Realizing that they will not survive another winter in their unspecified original location, the father leads the boy south, through a desolate American landscape along a vacant highway, towards the sea, sustained only by the vague hope of finding warmth and more "good guys" like them, and carrying with them only what is on their backs and what will fit into a damaged supermarket cart.
The setting is very cold, dark and filled with ash and the land is devoid of living vegetation. There is frequent rain or snow, and electrical storms are common. Many of the remaining human survivors are cannibalistic gangs or nomads, scavenging the detritus of city and country alike for human flesh, though that too is almost entirely depleted.
Overwhelmed by this desperate and apparently hopeless situation, the boy's mother, pregnant with him at the time of the cataclysm, commits suicide when the boy is about five or six; the rationality and calmness of her act being her last "great gift" to the man and the boy. The father coughs blood every morning and eventually realizes he is dying, yet still struggles to protect his son from the constant threats of attack, exposure, and starvation. The revolver they carry, meant for protection or suicide if necessary, has only one round for the entire story. The boy has been told to use it on himself if capture is imminent, to spare himself the horror of death at the hands of the cannibals.
In the face of these obstacles, the man and the boy have only each other. They repeatedly assure one another that they are "the good guys," who are "carrying the fire." On their journey, the duo scrounge for food, encounter roving bands of cannibals, and contend with horrors such as a newborn infant being roasted on a spit, and people being kept captive as they are slowly harvested for food. The vast majority of the book is written in the third person, with references to "the father" and "the son" or to "the man" and "the boy."
Although the man and the boy eventually reach the sea, neither the climate nor availability of food has improved. The man succumbs to an illness and dies, leaving the boy alone, though not long before he dies, the father tells the boy that he can continue to speak with him in his imagination after he is gone. The boy holds wake over his father's corpse for three days, with no idea of what he is to do next. On the third day, the grieving boy encounters a man who has been tracking the father and son. This man, who has a woman and two children of his own, a boy and a girl, invites him to join his family after convincing the boy that he is indeed one of the "good guys" like the boy and his dead father. A brief epilogue following meditates on nature and infinity in this altered environment.

Liewlyn 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 t question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

◎影響未來100年的不朽傑作！
◎《娛樂週刊》第1,000期紀念刊列為近25年來最棒的一本書。
◎電影由維果‧莫帝森（飾演「魔戒」亞拉岡）、莎莉塞隆主演。
◎英國《衛報》專欄作家、知名環保人士喬治．蒙貝特將麥卡錫列入「拯救地球五十人」名單，認為「《長路》對環保的影響力，可說無他能出其右」。
《長路》是一個父親寫給孩子的故事，是一篇懾人心神的寓言。讀完這個故事，心中湧出的熱淚與力量，或可扭轉即將變得晦暗混沌的未來。
為了你，在這個早晨醒來，是我這輩子做過最勇敢的事。
這是一個關於「相信」與「希望」的故事。
故事的開場，設定在大災難發生的數年後。
孩子出生的前幾夜，不知名的災難改變了世界的樣貌。舉目所見只有冰冷的雨雪、無盡的黑暗，再不見清朗日光或蔚藍天色。荒蕪嚴寒的末日，道德淪喪，善惡無分，吞噬弱者是唯一的生存之道，人性與尊嚴在此灰色煉獄裡蕩然無存。一對父子在文明的廢墟間踽踽獨行，往南方海岸去尋找一線生機。孤獨的漫漫長路上，空氣是灰濛的，地面成灰，滿目瘡痍，眼前不見任何生物的蹤跡，唯有困頓凋零、無數死亡，然而父親仍教導孩子，要記得那個曾經有夢、有故事、有海洋綠樹的世界，要留守心中對於美與善的顧念與堅持……。
當家園崩毀，人類滅絕，食物匱乏，只剩少數倖存者時，我們能殘害他人生命以求自保嗎？我們所仰賴的那些美好的價值和道德觀，將是延續性命的阻礙嗎？麥卡錫在構思多年之後，以最精煉的字句織就，寫成《長路》一書，表達他對環境以及對人性的關注，也是獻給全世界的一首優美輓歌。

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.

In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed
. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones.
One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law–in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell–can contain.
As Moss tries to evade his pursuers–in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives–McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines.
is a triumph.

剧情介绍：
《老无所依》根据普利策奖得主科马克·麦卡锡的小说改编，故事发生在1980年美国、墨西哥边境一处荒凉、野蛮的村庄，那里毒品、暴力肆虐。一次毒品交易，巨额金钱，有人席卷不义之财溜之大吉，黑道众人喋血追杀。原著用德州方言写就，描绘了一幅令人过目难忘的美国西部画卷。这片土地上的新兴暴力力量让他们19世纪黑道前辈的传说相形见绌。确实，相比起以往的“淘金年代西部片”，这部影片将西部描绘得更加蛮荒和可怖，其中的暴力场面可以用血流成河、尸骨遍野来形容。
然而，本来沉郁苍重的小说竟然能被改编得处处闪现天才机智和黑色幽默的光芒，而原著体现的深切人文关怀却一点都没被牺牲。
影片中有三个主要人物：警长——被时代变革定格的卫道士、杀手——精神极度变态；越南兽医——拣到一个装满不义之财的包后，他的生活发生了翻天覆地的变化。扮演这名兽医的是刚出演了昆汀·塔伦蒂诺的《刑房》的乔什·布罗林；奥斯卡奖得主汤米·李·琼斯扮演警长；而扮演杀手的是出演过《深海长眠》的西班牙男星贾维尔·巴尔登！
第60届戛纳电影节上此片获得极高评价，《老无所依》已定于今年11月起在全球上映，显然目标也早已瞄准了明年年初颁发的奥斯卡奖。

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?

A searing, post apocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

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.

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: 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.

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second of a two-volume masterpiece: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence.
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 Alicia’s 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.

Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution.

The searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive.

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post

The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN 9780375706677

In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, the setting of his famed Border Trilogy . The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones.

One day, Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law–in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell–can contain.

As Moss tries to evade his pursuers–in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives–McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines.
No Country for Old Men is a triumph.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive that “only adds to McCarthy’s stature as a living master. It’s gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle).

One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

By the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, "Outer Dark" is a novel at once mythic and starkly evocative, set in an unspecified place in Appalachia sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution.

'McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters . . . In his hands, everything is done with consummate skill' "Village Voice "

'McCarthy has made the fabulous real, the ordinary mysterious' "New York Times "

'A profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society in any time' "Time"

En far och hans son vandrar ensamma genom ett nedbränt amerikanskt landskap. Kylan är genomträngande och snön som faller blandas med askan i luften. Himlen är släckt på ljus.

Deras destination är kusten, men de vet inte om något väntar på dem där. Allt de har är en pistol att försvara sig med mot de laglösa gäng som rör sig längs vägen, de kläder de bär på kroppen, en kärra med mat de hittat -- och varandra.

Vägen är en djupt gripande berättelse om en resa. På ett hypnotiskt kraftfullt sätt ställs kärleken mellan en far och hans son mot en hopplöst skrämmande framtid. Det värsta och det bästa som människan kan åstadkomma genomströmmar detta mörka, intagande mästerverk.