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The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic
Cormac McCarthy
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Description for The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic
paperback. Includes 'All the Pretty Horses', 'The Crossing' and 'Cities of The Plain'. Num Pages: 1056 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
With an introduction by novelist Rachel Kushner In the vanishing world of the Old West, two cowboys begin an epic adventure, and their own coming-of-age stories. In All the Pretty Horses, John Grady Cole's search for a future takes him across the Mexican border to a job as a ranch hand and an ill-fated romance. The Crossing is the story of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham, who sets off on a perilous journey across the mountains of Mexico, accompanied only by a lone wolf. Eventually the two come together in Cities of the Plain, in a stunning tale of loyalty and love. A true classic of American literature, The Border Trilogy is Cormac McCarthy's award-winning requiem for the American frontier. Beautiful and brutal, filled equally with sorrow and humour, it is a powerful story of two friends growing up in a world where blood and violence are conditions of life.
Product Details
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1056
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509852024
SKU
V9781509852024
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Ref
99-50
About Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, The Road and No Country For Old Men. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Reviews for The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic
In these three fierce, desolate, beautiful novels, McCarthy has created a masterpiece
Sunday Times
A landmark in American literature
Guardian
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
A masterpiece
Time Out
The finest action writer since Hemingway . . . a darkly shining work . . . immensely entertaining . . . executed with consummate skill and much subtlety - the effect is magnificent
Observer
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 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
The prose is clean and hard as pebbles . . . The great news is that All the Pretty Horses is only part one of the trilogy, and so, conceivably, only a third as good as it's going to get
Independent on Sunday
A book of remarkable beauty and strength, the work of a master in perfect command of his medium
Washington Post
One of the greatest American novels of this or any time
Guardian
Sunday Times
A landmark in American literature
Guardian
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
A masterpiece
Time Out
The finest action writer since Hemingway . . . a darkly shining work . . . immensely entertaining . . . executed with consummate skill and much subtlety - the effect is magnificent
Observer
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 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
The prose is clean and hard as pebbles . . . The great news is that All the Pretty Horses is only part one of the trilogy, and so, conceivably, only a third as good as it's going to get
Independent on Sunday
A book of remarkable beauty and strength, the work of a master in perfect command of his medium
Washington Post
One of the greatest American novels of this or any time
Guardian