The Border Trilogy

With an introduction by novelist Rachel Kushner In the vanishing world of the Old West, two cowboys begin an epic adventure, and their own coming-of-age stories. InAll the Pretty Horses, John Grady Coles search for a future takes him across the Mexican border to a job as a ranch hand and an ill-fated romance.The Crossingis 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 inCities of the Plain, in a stunning tale of loyalty and love. A true classic of American literature,The Border Trilogyis Cormac McCarthys 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 are conditions of life.