is the leading novel of Cormac McCarthy’s

. Set in the rugged topography of the American southwest, with most of the significant action occurring south of the border in northern Mexico,

and

are companion pieces to

. Additionally, it is relevant to notice that the

roughly follows the locations prominent in McCarthy’s

. One may well regard his trilogy as a three-act play set on the stage of

, whose nineteenth-century setting predates the events of the succeeding trilogy. Beyond this, one could recognize McCarthy’s later

as a concluding novel of a southwestern quintet that examines both the troubled history, and sometimes violent,…

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