Border Trilogy

Journey into the heart of the American frontier in Cormac McCarthy's award-winning The Border Trilogy, a sweeping tale of loyalty, love, and the inescapable conditions of life.With an introduction from Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room, this edition collects all three novels in the trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain.Set in the mid-20th century, the trilogy follows two young cowboys as they leave their childhoods behind and venture across the U.S.-Mexico border. John Grady Cole searches for his future to the south, finding adventure and barbarism in the vanishing world of the Old West. Billy Parham, accompanied by a lone, pregnant wolf, is drawn to the mountains of Mexico after sparing her life.When the two men's paths converge in the final volume, a perilous chain of events unfolds, bringing the story to its savage and inevitable conclusion. Filled with sorrow and humour, The Border Trilogy is a powerful saga of friendship and coming of age in a world where violence and bloodshed are a part of life.Praise for Cormac McCarthy:'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain