Recent Reads 3

'The Border Trilogy' by Cormac McCarthy constitutes three geniusely written books, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing and finally, Cities Of The Plain.

Because I can't actually put into words how brilliant this Trilogy of books is(are?) I've chosen a few quotes (from the book sleeves) that I think best capture what I'm less able to say.

The Guardian describes All the Pretty Horses as 'One of the greatest American novels written of this or any time'.

The Sunday Times says 'The cumulative effect of McCarthy's, prose is uniquely compelling… his dialogue is, as ever, deliciously wry and laconic. When his cowboys spit, they speak volumes… At his unadorned best, he makes us feel the loss of a world we never knew'.

Bookworld says 'Turn to almost any page and you will light upon sharply observed details, painterly descriptions and the sound of real voice. Like the novelists he admires - Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner - Cormac McCarthy has created an imaginative ouevre greater and deeper than any single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods themselves'.