The Border Trilogy

<p><b>With an introduction by novelist Rachel Kushner</b><br><br>In the vanishing world of the Old West, two cowboys begin an epic adventure, and their own coming-of-age stories. In <i>All the Pretty Horses</i>, John Grady Cole’s search for a future takes him across the Mexican border to a job as a ranch hand and an ill-fated romance. <i>The Crossing </i>is the story of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham, who sets off on a perilous journey across the mountains of Mexico, accompanied only by a lone wolf. Eventually the two come together in <i>Cities of the Plain</i>, in a stunning tale of loyalty and love.<br><br>A true classic of American literature, <i>The Border Trilogy</i> is Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning requiem for the American frontier. Beautiful and brutal, filled equally with sorrow and humour, it is a powerful story of two friends growing up in a world where blood and violence ar