num_pages: 154
description: James Bell's thorough annotations will assist the casual reader as well as the literary scholar in attaining a more comprehensive understanding of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, comprising All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain. A chronology, character index, and index of place names for each book, as well as chapters on cultural and historical allusion in the trilogy, help to demystify and crystallize McCarthy's forceful writing.
language: English
title: Cormac McCarthy's West: The Border Trilogy Annotations
titlecomplete: Cormac McCarthy's West: The Border Trilogy Annotations
publisher: Texas Western Press