squatters—he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment,
humor, and dignity.
Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-73632-5 (trade)
978-0-307-76247-4 (eBook)
THE STONEMASON
The setting is Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s. The Telfairs are stonemasons and
have been for generations. Ben Telfair has given up his education to apprentice
himself to his grandfather, Papaw. Out of the love that binds these two men and
the gulf that separates them from the Telfairs who have forsaken—or dishonored
—the family trade, McCarthy has crafted a drama that bears all the hallmarks of
his great �ction.
Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-76280-5
BLOOD MERIDIAN
This is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America’s
westward expansion. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-
Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old
Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being
murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72875-7 (trade)
978-0-307-76252-8 (eBook)
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES
All the Pretty Horses tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas
ranchers. Across the border, Mexico beckons—beautiful and desolate, rugged and
cruelly civilized. With two companions, he sets o� on an idyllic, sometimes comic
adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-74439-9 (trade)
978-0-307-48130-6 (eBook)
THE CROSSING
In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been
marauding his family’s ranch. Instead of killing it, he takes it back to the
mountains of Mexico. With that crossing, he begins an arduous and dreamlike