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An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."  Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being mur... 

Anonymous User says: “ Mr. McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian' examines the nature of man when the fragile constraints of civil...”

 

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.  While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance. 

Facebook-gebruiker says: “Well - it's disturbing. Imagine a retelling of serial killer Ed Gein's story mostly from his poin...”

 

In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth.In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch.  But instead of killing it, he decides to take it... 

Matt says: “Second of the Border Trilogy, and again with a serious horsey theme. In essence, it's three traum...”

 

In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier.  The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the South, the twin cities of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. Their life is made up of tra... 

Albert says: “The third and final installment of McCarthy’s “Border Trilogy” is sparer than its predecessors, a...”

 

Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century.  A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes.  Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son.  Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by th... 

Loree says: “Published in 1968, Outer Dark, is McCarthy's second novel. The black and pessimistic view of hum...”

 

ALL THE PRETTY HORSESThe first volume of the Border Trilogy–tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Across the border Mexico beckons–beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With two companions, he sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.THE CROSSINGIn the late 1930’s, sixteen-year-old Billy P... 

Brian says: “McCarthy's trilogy of border tales are both coming of age stories and a look at the last remnants...”