The Border Trilogy Picador Classic

<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>