{"product_id":"the-border-trilogy-by-cormac-mccarthy","title":"The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeautiful and brutal, two young cowboys come of age in The Border Trilogy – Cormac McCarthy''s award-winning requiem for the American frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e''A landmark in American literature'' – Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an introduction from Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the middle of the twentieth century, two teenage boys leave their childhoods behind across the US-Mexico border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBilly Parnham, after deciding not to kill her, will be drawn to the mountains of Mexico accompanied by a lone, pregnant wolf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA stunning saga of loyalty and love, filled equally with sorrow and humour, The Border Trilogy is a powerful story of two friends growing up in a world where blood and violence are conditions of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e''In these three fierce, desolate, beautiful novels, McCarthy has created a masterpiece'' – Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition collects all three novels in the Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Cormac McCarthy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e''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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e''[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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catnap Books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":53548439535882,"sku":"9781509852024","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/4730\/2666\/files\/A7C050F1-4113-455D-AE3C-9B9CDEF26E5D.jpg?v=1787393147","url":"https:\/\/catnapbooks.nl\/products\/the-border-trilogy-by-cormac-mccarthy","provider":"Catnap Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}