Cormac McCarthy

The Border Trilogy

- All the Pretty Horses
- The Crossing
- Cities of the Plain

Published by Everyman’s Library in hardback on
4 September 2008 at £15.00

The three novels of Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning The Border Trilogy are being published for the first time in the UK in one hardback volume through Everyman’s Library. A genuine American epic, The Border Trilogy comprises All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing and finally Cities of the Plain.

Hauntingly beautiful, The Border Trilogy tells the tale of two young men – John Grady Cole and Billy Parham – who come of age on the Southwestern ranches in the 1930s while, across the border, Mexico beckons them with its desolate beauty and the cruel promise of a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

In All the Pretty Horses, a young John Grady Cole, dispossessed by the sale of his family’s Texas ranch, heads across the border in search of a cowboy life, where he finds a job breaking horses and a dangerously ill-fated romance. In The Crossing, sixteen year old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch and, instead of killing it, decides to take it on a perilous journey home to the mountains of Mexico. Years later, these two drifters come together in Cities of the Plain, a magnificent tale of friendship and passion.

A haunting evocation of two young men poised on the edge of a world about to change forever, McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy serves as a masterful elegy for the American frontier.

‘A miracle in prose, an American original.’
- New York Times Book Review

‘A landmark in American literature.’
- The Guardian

Cormac McCarthy is the author of The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, Blood Meridian and The Road. All the Pretty Horses, the first volume of The Border Trilogy, won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Road has been adapted for feature film directed by John Hillcoat and is due for release in 2009.