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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.

Published in 1983 to phenomenal reviews, Blue Highways: A Journey into America became a cult classic on par with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. In this highly acclaimed, bestselling memoir, a 38-year-old laid-off college professor of Sioux and white blood drives around the U.S. on the "blue highways, " the rural back made that are colored blue on old maps. The places he discovers during his 13,000-mile journey are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and often full of simply the wonder of the ordinary.-- Blue Highways received extraordinary reviews when it was first published.

Pierwsza część słynnej „Trylogii pogranicza”. Na drugim brzegu Rio Grande zaczyna się przygoda, i można tam znaleźć szczęście i wielką miłość. Ale może też być inaczej. Dla trójki młodocianych uciekinierów z południa Stanów Zjednoczonych Meksyk – dziki, bezkresny, romantyczny - staje się krainą, w której za marzenia trzeba płacić krwią, a bycie kowbojem oznacza najczęściej kłopoty z prawem. Rącze konie są opowieścią o dojrzewaniu, utraconej niewinności, pierwszych męskich decyzjach i przyjaźni, z której trzeba zdać egzamin. W 2000 r. powieść została przeniesiona na duży ekran przez Billy’ego Boba Thorntona. Główne role zagrali Matt Damon i Penelope Cruz.