The Border Trilogy

The finest action writer since Hemingway … a darkly shining work … immensely entertaining … executed with consummate skill and much subtlety - the effect is magnificent * Observer *One of the greatest American novels of this or any time * Guardian *A uniquely brilliant book … told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting … One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time * Sunday Times *A book of remarkable beauty and strength, the work of a master in perfect command of his medium * Washington Post *The prose is clean and hard as pebbles * Independent on Sunday *In a single stride it takes McCarthy to the forefront of contemporary American fiction. All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece * Financial Times *A masterpiece * Time Out *In these three fierce, desolate, beautiful novels, McCarthy has created a masterpiece * Sunday Times *Its elegaic rhythm captures the bandlands of Texas and northern Mexico with a passion most writers either couldn’t muster or wouldnt’ dare * Boston Globe *

Cormac McCarthy is one of the most enigmatic and reclusive superstars of the modern literary world. Living and writing from El Paso, Texas, he has shunned all requests for interviews, appearances at bookshops or literary festivals. Nonetheless, he remains one of the most admired writers of the last fifty years. His eight novels have received extraordinary reviews, being hailed as masterpieces of American literature. He has won the American National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the first book of The Border Trilogy. Cormac McCarthy is the author of twelve novels and a play. All his novels are available in Picador editions. He died in June 2023.