The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic(Picador Classic)

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

About the Author :
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.

Review :
The finest action writer since Hemingway . . . a darkly shining work . . . immensely entertaining . . . executed with consummate skill and much subtlety - the effect is magnificent One of the greatest American novels of this or any time 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 A book of remarkable beauty and strength, the work of a master in perfect command of his medium The prose is clean and hard as pebbles In a single stride it takes McCarthy to the forefront of contemporary American fiction. All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece A masterpiece In these three fierce, desolate, beautiful novels, McCarthy has created a masterpiece Its elegaic rhythm captures the bandlands of Texas and northern Mexico with a passion most writers either couldn't muster or wouldnt' dare