Description
| Product ID: | 9781509852024 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Picador Classic |
| Title: | The Border Trilogy |
| Subtitle: | Picador Classic |
| Authors: | Author: Cormac McCarthy |
| Page Count: | 1056 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Two young cowboys come of age in the dying days of the American frontier – across this award-winning trilogy, loyalty, love and the brutality of this landscape will determine the course of their lives. <p><b>Beautiful and brutal, two young cowboys come of age in <i>The Border Trilogy</i> – Cormac McCarthy's award-winning requiem for the American frontier.<br><br>'A landmark in American literature' – <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>With an introduction from Rachel Kushner, author of <i>The Mars Room</i>.<br><br>During the middle of the twentieth century, two teenage boys leave their childhoods behind across the US-Mexico border.<br><br>John Grady Cole will search for his future to the south, a friend by his side, finding adventure and barbarism in the vanishing world of the Old West. <br><br>Billy Parnham, after deciding not to kill her, will be drawn to the mountains of Mexico accompanied by a lone, pregnant wolf. <br><br>When the two boys come together as men, in the trilogy's final volume, a dangerous chain of events will bring this story to its savage, inevitable conclusion.<br><br>A stunning saga of loyalty and love, filled equally with sorrow and humour, <i>The Border Trilogy</i> is a powerful story of two friends growing up in a world where blood and violence are conditions of life.<br><br><b>'In these three fierce, desolate, beautiful novels, McCarthy has created a masterpiece' – <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br>This edition collects all three novels in the Border Trilogy: <i>All the Pretty Horses</i>, <i>The Crossing</i> and <i>Cities of the Plain</i>.<br><br>Praise for Cormac McCarthy<br><br>‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of <i>The Green Road </i>and<i> The Wren, The Wren</i><br><br>'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of <i>The Shining</i> and the Dark Tower series<br><br>'[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 <i>Brokeback Mountain</i></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-07-12 |
