The screenplay for McCarthy's classic film, bearing in full measure his giftthe ability to fit complex and universal emotions into ordinary lives and still preserve all of their power and significance In the spring of 1975 the film director Richard Pearce approached Cormac McCarthy with a screenplay idea. Though already a widely acclaimed novelist, the author of such modern classics as The Orchard Keeper and Child of God, McCarthy had never before...

Presents the three-part series by twentieth-century American author Cormac McCarthy of two young men who come of age in the 1930s Southwest, head for Mexico on different quests--one to become a cowboy and one to return a she-wolf to her home--and meet up several years later.

A father and his son are two of the last remaining people on earth after an unexplained tragedy has destroyed most of life. As the two head south, they are faced with many trials and tribulations along the way. An intense bond between the father and son is formed as together they strive to not only survive, but to retain humanity as they help the people they encounter along the way.