The Border Trilogy (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Cormac McCarthy
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: 1939 to 1952
- Setting: Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico
- Principal Characters: John Grady Cole, Lacey Rawlins, Jimmy Blevins, Alejandra, Billy Parham, Boyd Parham, Magdalena
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, 1940’s, West, U.S., Lynching, Mexico or Mexicans, Westerns, Lightning, Boys, Texas, Horses
- Locales: Mexico, Texas
The Novel
The Border Trilogy is a fictionalized portrayal of two boys’ pilgrimage from youth to manhood during the years immediately before, during, and following World War II. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are the central figures in a sweeping story depicting the decline of the cowboy way of life in the American Southwest.
All the Pretty Horses opens in 1949 with sixteen-year-old John Grady Cole, the last in a long line of Grady ranchers, facing an uncertain future. His grandfather has just died, and his father has returned from the war disillusioned...
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