No Country for Old Men (novel)

No Country for Old Men
First edition cover
AuthorCormac McCarthy
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
July 19, 2005
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)
Pages320 pp (hardback edition)
ISBN0-375-40677-8 (Hardback edition)
OCLC57352812
813/.54 22
LC ClassPS3563.C337 N6 2005

No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, who had originally written the story as a screenplay.[1] 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. Owing to its origins as a screenplay, the novel has a simple writing style that differs from McCarthy's earlier novels. The book was adapted into a 2007 Coen brothers film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

  1. ^ Legge, Jeff (2017-11-21). "From Script to Screen: No Country for Old Men". The Script Lab. Retrieved 2019-05-31.