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No. 0059 Fiction · American Southwest

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy

A runaway kid out of Tennessee, fourteen years old, drifts down into Texas in 1849 and falls in with the Glanton gang — real men, scalp hunters the Mexican states paid by the head to kill Apaches, who figured out…

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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
No. 0061 Fiction · Great Plains

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

John Grady Cole is sixteen when his grandfather dies and the ranch he expected to inherit gets sold out from under him. It’s 1949, and the cowboy life he wants has already ended in Texas, so he and a friend…

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All the Pretty Horses
No. 0062 Fiction · American Southwest

The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy

Cormac McCarthy

The second McCarthy border novel — a young man crosses into Mexico to return a wolf to the wild. The wolf doesn’t survive. Neither does the old world McCarthy is eulogizing. If McCarthy’s your jam, the prose is as good…

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The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy