MCCARTHY, Cormac. The Border Trilogy. All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain.

MCCARTHY, Cormac. The Border Trilogy. All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain. London: Picador. 1993-1998. 8vo. Three volumes; original cloth in unclipped dustwrappers; pp. [10], 302, [8]; [4], 426, [2]; [6], 292, [6]; light spotting to upper text-block edge and white cloth tips of Pretty Horses, a few tiny marks to lower edge of Cities, small nick to lower outer corner of Pretty Horses wrapper, else a bright, clean and square set. First UK printings of McCarthy's great epic of friendship, loss, and the American frontier. McCarthy's Border Trilogy is one of the great achievements of late twentieth-century American fiction. Lyrical and brutal, filled with sorrow and humour, it tells the story of two friends growing up in a world where violence is a condition of life. Epic in scale, the three novels (published in the UK between 1993 and 1998) cross generic as well as geographical borders. At once coming-of-age story, courtly romance, and tragedy, they are works deeply rooted in the American West but also timeless, all written in a prose that ‘takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power’ (Stephen King). SKU: 2125432