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The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library) |  | Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Category: Book
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Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 2004
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Second printing
Pages: 1040
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 2
ISBN: 0375407936
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780375407932
ASIN: 0375407936
Publication Date: September 28, 1999
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Product Description
Available together in one volume for the first time, the three novels of Cormac
McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling Border Trilogy constitute a genuine
American epic.
Beginning with All the Pretty Horses and continuing through The
Crossing and Cities of the Plain, McCarthy chronicles the lives of two
young men coming of age in the Southwest and Mexico, poised on the edge of a
world about to change forever. Hauntingly beautiful, filled with sorrow and
humor, The Border Trilogy is a masterful elegy for the American frontier.
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 Reads like this are few and far between. November 5, 2009
James M. Prokes (SF Bay area)
There is little to add to the other positive reviews, but I would compare McCarthy's writing style to impressionist artists; broad, accurate and simple strokes that allow the reader to form the images within their own experience; in this respect, it is prose at its finest. In my opinion it is rivaled only by Raymond Chandler's depiction of pre-war/noir Los Angeles. The Border Trilogy is my first exposure to McCarthy. I intend to read everything he has written.
 Sadistic and Overwritten August 28, 2009
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
Reading this Trilogy is like watching a Quentin Tarantino film. I am appalled at America's taste for sick violence supposedly elevated to an art form. And boy does this guy overwrite!
This is highbrow for lowbrow stuff.
Just Great American Literature August 12, 2009
Joshua (Cleveland, TN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I haven't even finished reading All The Pretty Horses yet. However, Cormac is a fantastic author worthy of your time and money. His images are gorgeous and well realized; his storytelling cold and gritty at times, warm and intensely human through his dialogue and character study.
If you feel drawn to the mystery and brutality in the great expanse of west Texas and Mexico than look no further.
cormac mccarthy trilogy October 24, 2008
Susan H. Giron (moving to Alaska)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
very good and sparse storytelling; practical like the life on horseback must have been. two real tragic moments stand out: the she-wolf's death and the misshapen and life-battered dog at the end of the last novella.i agree with a previous reviewer that the wolf's death was an act of love and the only one in this trilogy; the dog's running off into the night is frightening as i believe the dog represented the future end for the solo cowhand. Gripping, thought-provoking,takes a mature and aware reader; don't look for a happy ending--look for insight into character, values and life itself.
You will get hooked on this author September 9, 2008
Martin Jarzombek (Adkins, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Let's start off with an admission. I rarely devote free time to novels - just can't sit still that long. On a lark, I picked up McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men" for a quick read on weekend escape to the beach. Perfect. Four novels later, I am now officially hooked. "The Border Trilogy" is a must read and my latest purchase. As always, the action is continuous, the descriptions unique, the characters interesting and believable. More than occasionally McCarthy taunts you with the unusual phrase or jumps to Spanish conversation. Do take the time to look these up as it adds unique and complete meaning to the novel. It also soon becomes a game between you and the author, a quest if you will, to unabashedly claim mastery of the piece.
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