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The Crossing

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“All the Pretty Horses”

In All the Pretty Horses: Prose style and commercial success
He followed up with The Crossing in 1994; Cities of the Plain (1998) completes the Border Trilogy.
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In Cormac McCarthy: The Border Trilogy
The second installment, The Crossing (1994), set before and during World War II, follows the picaresque adventures of brothers Billy and Boyd Parham and centers on three round-trip passages that Billy makes between southwestern New Mexico and Mexico. The trilogy concludes with Cities of the Plain (1998), which…
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