Cormac McCarthy is an American writer in the Southern gothic tradition whose novels about wayward characters in the rural American south and southwest are notable for their dark violence, dense prose and stylistic complexity. He is also a screenwriter and playwright. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award.
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The Border trilogy
- Book one: All the pretty horses
- Book two: The Crossing
- Book three: Cities of the plain
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