The Border Trilogy

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The Border Trilogy is a series of three interrelated novels by Cormac McCarthy that follow young cowboys on the U.S.–Mexico border, exploring themes of loss, identity, and the fading American West.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary trilogy
novel series
author Cormac McCarthy NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
explores cross-border culture
displacement
masculinity
mortality
firstVolumePublicationYear 1992
genre Western fiction
coming-of-age fiction
literary fiction
hasCriticalReception widely acclaimed by literary critics
hasPart All the Pretty Horses NERFINISHED
Cities of the Plain NERFINISHED
The Crossing NERFINISHED
hasProtagonist Billy Parham NERFINISHED
John Grady Cole NERFINISHED
influencedBy American frontier mythology
classic Western genre
language English
literaryMovement postmodern literature
mainCharacterOccupation cowboy
mainTheme coming of age
human–nature relationship
identity
loss
moral ambiguity
the fading American West
violence
narrativeStyle third-person narration
notableFor lyrical prose
philosophical dialogue
sparse punctuation
numberOfWorks 3
periodOfPublicationEnd 1998
periodOfPublicationStart 1992
publisherOfFirstVolume Alfred A. Knopf NERFINISHED
secondVolumePublicationYear 1994
settingLocation American Southwest NERFINISHED
Mexico NERFINISHED
U.S.–Mexico border NERFINISHED
thirdVolumePublicationYear 1998
timePeriodSetting mid-20th century
post-World War II era

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The Crossing partOfSeries The Border Trilogy
Cities of the Plain partOfSeries The Border Trilogy
Cities of the Plain concludes The Border Trilogy