Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

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All the Pretty Horses

is the leading novel of Cormac McCarthy’s

Border Trilogy

. Set in the rugged topography of the American southwest, with most of the significant action occurring south of the border in northern Mexico,

The Crossing

and

Cities of the Plain

are companion pieces to

All the Pretty Horses

. Additionally, it is relevant to notice that the

Border Trilogy

roughly follows the locations prominent in McCarthy’s

Blood Meridian

. One may well regard his trilogy as a three-act play set on the stage of

Blood Meridian

, whose nineteenth-century setting predates the events of the succeeding trilogy. Beyond this, one could recognize McCarthy’s later

No Country for Old Men

as a concluding novel of a southwestern quintet that examines both the troubled history, and sometimes violent,…

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Citation: Hada, Ken. "All the Pretty Horses". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 December 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=31209, accessed 28 March 2024.]

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