Synopsis
The final chapter of Cormac McCarthy's epic Border Trilogy, where the American frontier meets its brutal, inescapable end.
1952, New Mexico. John Grady Cole, last seen in All the Pretty Horses, works as a ranch hand alongside Billy Parnham, of The Crossing. These are the dying days of the American frontier.
From the north, the military encroaches upon the ranch. To the...
Details
04 August 2022304 pages
9781035003761Imprint: Picador
Reviews
In a lovely and terrible landscape of natural beauty and impending loss we find John Grady; a young cowboy of the old school, trusted by men and horses, and a fragile young woman, whose salvation becomes his obsession . . . McCarthy makes the sweeping plains a miracle.Scotsman
Like the Western settings he captures to perfection, his work is both heart-wrenchingly beautiful and uncompromisingly brutal.Express
The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literatureGuardian
This haunting, deeply felt novel completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990sTelegraph
