The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses (1992) The Crossing (1994) Cities of the Plain (1998) Cormac McCarthy wrote and published five novels before The Border Trilogy. Though his first five novels were critically praised, none of them had any commercial success. (Only his first novel, The Orchard Keeper, made it to a second printing.) Because of this (and for other reasons too), McCarthy switched publishers, going from Random House to Alfred A. Knopf. This was a great move for McCarthy and for readers. Knopf went all-out to promote All the Pretty Horses and it paid off, literally. Whereas McCarthy’s first five novels sold a combined total of only 13,634 copies (before being remaindered), almost 200,000 hardbound copies of All the Pretty Horses sold in its first six months. All the Pretty Horses too won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992 … And at this point, Cormac McCarthy was off!! McCarthy became a literary mega star (though he would repudiate all such labels and forever eschew the spotlight). #CormacMcCarthy #TheBorderTrilogy #BorderTrilogy #Suttree #BloodMeridian #BookLover #FirstEditions #BookNeed #BookRecommendations #BookNerd #RareBooks #Bookstagram #AllThePrettyHorses #TheCrossing #CitiesOfThePlain #alfredaknopf #FirstEdition
