"The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner," writes esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to...

Herbst 1952: John Grady Cole arbeitet auf einer Ranch bei Al Paso. In den Nachtbars und Bordellen hinter der mexikanischen Grenze findet er die Frau seines Lebens: Magdalena, eine schöne Hure, zart und zerbrechlich. Doch sie gehört...

The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life...