Border Trilogy - Picador Classic

b>With an introduction by novelist Rachel Kushner/b>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.

About the author

Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, Child of God and The Passenger. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country for Old Men – the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of 89.

Product details

• Authors: Cormac McCarthy
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781509852024
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-5202-4
• No. of pages: 1056
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 47 mm
• Series: Picador Classic; Picador Classic
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Mexico, Coming of age, Texas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Southern, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1950 to c 1959, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1940 to c 1949, Adventure fiction: Westerns, Small Town & Rural, Historical / General, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary