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Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in From Publishers WeeklyThis is a novel so exuberant in its prose, so offbeat in its setting and so mordant and profound in its deliberations that one searches in vain for comparisons in American literature. None of McCarthy's previous works, not even the award-winning The Orchard Keeper (1965) or the much-admired Blood Meridian (1985), quite prepares the reader for the singular achievement of this first installment in the projected Border Trilogy. John Grady Cole is a 16-year-old boy who leaves his Texas home when his grandfather dies. With his parents already split up and his mother working in theater out of town, there is no longer reason for him to stay. He and his friend Lacey Rawlins ride their horses south into Mexico; they are joined by another boy, the mysterious Jimmy Blevins, a 14-year-old sharpshooter. Although the year is 1948, the landscape--at some moments parched and unforgiving, at others verdant and gent

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Author

Cormac McCarthy

Publisher

Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780785727835

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.97 / 5 (511 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14