The Border Trilogy, 9781509852024
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Old West cowboys seek adventure, love, and brutal coming-of-age.
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The Border Trilogy

picador classic

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  • Paperback

    1056 pages

  • Release Date

    9 July 2018

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Summary

The Border Trilogy: A Requiem for the American Frontier

In the vanishing world of the Old West, two cowboys embark on an epic coming-of-age adventure.

In All the Pretty Horses, John Grady Cole’s search for a future leads him across the Mexican border to a ranch hand job and an ill-fated romance.

The Crossing tells the story of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham, who embarks on a perilous journey across the mountains of Mexico, accompanied only by a lone …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781509852024
ISBN-10:1509852026
Series:Picador Classic
Author:Cormac McCarthy
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Picador
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:1056
Release Date:9 July 2018
Weight:729g
Dimensions:199mm x 131mm x 47mm
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Critics Review

A masterpiece

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 *

About The Author

Cormac McCarthy

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.

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