Deze serie duikt in de levens van jonge mannen die zich aan de ruige Amerikaans-Mexicaanse grens begeven aan het begin van de 20e eeuw. Het schetst een levendig beeld van een land waar ongerepte wildernis botst met beschaving, en dromen vaak worden betaald met bloedvergieten. De verhalen verkennen diepgaande thema's van volwassen worden, het verlies van onschuld en de zoektocht naar identiteit in een hard en meedogenloos landschap. Het biedt een epische weergave van een verloren tijdperk in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis, waarbij universele ervaringen van verantwoordelijkheid, wraak en overleving worden onderzocht.
The first book in a trilogy centreing on John Grady Cole, the last survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers , who runs off to Mexico after his mother sells their ranch and cuts him off from the only life he has ever wanted; This title is also available as a film.
Vol. 1, Àll the pretty horses'. When BIlly and his family come to New Mexico in the 1930s, he becomes obsessed with a wolf whose existence is threatened by ranchers.
The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' Guardian
Drei Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur: Die Border-Trilogie Cormac McCarthy hat mit diesen drei Romanen einen Meilenstein in der Neuerfindung des Western-Genres gesetzt. Es sind Abenteuergeschichten, die in einer sterbenden, archaischen Welt spielen: ein Leben im Sattel, die Weite der Prärie. McCarthys Sprachmacht und Erzählkunst machen diese Geschichten von Liebe, Gewalt und Rache zu großer Literatur. (Klappentext)
Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning, bestselling trio of novels chronicles the coming-of-age of two young men in the south west of America. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys of the old school, are poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Their journeys across the border into Mexico, each an adventure fraught with fear and pain, mark a passage into adulthood, and eventual salvation. In All the Pretty Horses, young John Grady Cole, dispossessed by the sale of his family’s Texas ranch, heads across the border in search of the cowboy life, where he finds a job breaking horses, and a dangerously ill-fated romance. In The Crossing, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch and, instead of killing it, decides to take it on a perilous journey home to the mountains of Mexico.These two drifters come together years later in Cities of the Plain, a magnificent tale of friendship and passion. In the vanishing world of the Old West, blood and violence are conditions of life. Beautiful and brutal, filled with sorrow and humour, The Border Trilogy is both an epic love story and a fierce elegy for the American frontier.