 Anyway, I'm going to quote this. It says, last year when I heard the news that Carmack McCarthy had died in Santa Fe at the age of 89, I reread No Country for Old Men. He owed the title of the book to Yeats' poem Sailing to Byzantium, perhaps the best ever written about growing old. And the novel takes place in Texas in the year 1980, and it's about an aging sheriff of a county in far west Texas near the Mexican border.