![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Llewellyn Moss, the protagonist, is a Vietnam vet and sort of a generic good old boy. In his recent (but not latest) novel, No Country for Old Men (2005), Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, although unlike the Border Trilogy, which is set in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the time is now closer to our own, the early 1980s. Cruz plays the delectable young Mexican aristocrat, Alejandra, and Matt Damon plays a sensitive young cowboy, John Grady Cole who, while falling in love with Alejandra, ponders the evil and pain of the world: “What he had not known was that it was mindless….” The trilogy continues with The Crossing and concludes with Cities of the Plain in which a now older John Grady Cole falls in love with a beautiful Mexican prostitute. A few years later (2000), Billy Bob Thorton directed the film adaptation starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz. Cormac McCarthy is best known for his Border Trilogy, three novels set along the Texas-Mexico border, the first of which, All the Pretty Horses, is set almost entirely in Mexico, south of the Texas border.Īll the Pretty Horses won both the National Book Award (1992) and the National Book Critics Circle Award. ![]()
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