All the Pretty Horses is the first of what publishers are calling McCarthy's Border Trilogy. The second installment of this trilogy, The Crossing, presents a completely new slate of characters but repeats many of the earlier novel's patterns and themes.
Blood Meridian (1985), the McCarthy novel that immediately preceded this one, is also a Western involving a young male character who travels into Mexico, but that is about where the similarities end. The graphic violence and horrifying evil in Blood Meridian are utterly relentless......
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