| 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:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 147,148
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Pages: 1040
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.3 x 1.8
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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 A boy story for a boy's mind. June 7, 2010
K. Floyd
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Border trilogy as a whole creates a romanticised, ephemeral vision of Mexico and the West while simultaneously working against cowboy stereotypes, which creates an uncomfortable tension between generic expectations and textual realism. His cowboys do cowboy things; they are in love with Mexican girls and they talk to their horses, but they also talk about the war and love and religion. McCarthy is clearly a man in love with the western landscape and he follows in much the same literary tradition as Willa Cather, without so much moralizing. He seems unwilling to settle comfortably into the genre, which is what makes his novels compelling in the first place. They tell what you already knew about the wild west from childhood stories, but then he often reminds you that these lives are real, the west is real and life there is difficult. Cowboy legends are problematic for the people who have to live them, and they never end well. The trilogy itself works as an exploration of the evolution of the cowboy genre; in All the Pretty Horses, the West is unconquered and there's still love and adventure to be had. By Cities on the Plain, cowboys have become 'dogropers' and the atom bomb enters the scene. The cowboys can't win, but McCarthy doggedly sticks with the sexism and racism inherent in the western genre. McCarthy transforms the west and western legends into things and spaces that they are not. Not everything is the stuff of cowboy legend, not all lives are 'western' lives. I don't know what to make of it; I can't decide if I should protest this inauthenticity, or if I should go along with it and talk about the beauty of the expanse of the southern desert like everyone else who's ever written about the desert does. It's still there, even if it's generally outside my day to day suburban life. You can't avoid the mounatins or the dry air or the red earth, but I don't always stop to remember how many people dream about it and think about it yet have no idea that it's really there.
 McCarthy: Way too morbid and fatalistic for me. Sorry. February 26, 2010
J. Spithill (Kingwood, Texas United States)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
After reading The Road, The Border Trilogy and No Country for Old Men, only because someone said it was better than the book, I'm done! I'm not one for soapy illogical happy endings but damn, it would be nice to a good character make it all the way to the end of the book. I think Mr. McCarthy is a little self indulgent in his use of exotic vocabulary and metaphors and tends to wander from the plot with philisophical and artistic ramblings. If you have the patience to wade through all of the pages every now and then you will come across a snipit that really grabs you. The only problem is they are way too few and far between. Just not my style I guess.
 Awesomeness! February 16, 2010
C. Hutchinson (Meade, KS)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was a gift for my husband. Books are great! Excellent condition. Thanks
 border trilogy February 15, 2010
Russell Gibson
0 out of 17 found this review helpful
It took 29 days for it to arrive. at least it was in good, new condition.
 nice February 1, 2010
Mitchell West
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a new fan of this writer. The quality of the book is exceptional. Im still reading the stories and they are so far excellent.
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