Description

In this wonderful new novel, the National Book award winning writer of All of the Pretty Horses and The Crossing styles a darkly gorgeous elegy for the American frontier.  The environment is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham will work as farm hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; towards the south, the twin cities of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. Their existence is composed of trail drives and mount deals and tales told by fire light. It's a lifestyle that's going to change forever, and John Grady and Billy both understand it.