But Magdalena's brothel is run by Eduardo, a formidable adversary also in love with the young girl. The couple plans to marry and live in the U.S., and John Grady renovates an abandoned cabin, turning it into a home. "During a visit to a brothel in Juárez, John Grady falls in love with a young, epileptic prostitute, Magdalena. In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.
One of 1000 copies signed by the author on a specially printed leaf.
250,000 announced first printing BOMC main selection. McCarthy establishes himself here as the closest thing in American literature to an Old Testament prophet, trolling the blackest registers of human emotion to create a haunting and grim novel about civilization's slow death after the power goes out. The man assures the boy that the two of them are "good guys," but from the way his father treats other stray survivors the boy sees that his father has turned into an amoral survivalist, tenuously attached to the morality of the past by his fierce love for his son. Beyond the ever-present possibility of starvation lies the threat of roving bands of cannibalistic thugs.
(The man's wife, who gave birth to the boy after calamity struck, has killed herself.) They carry blankets and scavenged food in a shopping cart, and the man is armed with a revolver loaded with his last two bullets. In this landscape, an unnamed man and his young son journey down a road to get to the sea. Violence, in McCarthy's postapocalyptic tour de force, has been visited worldwide in the form of a "long shear of light and then a series of low concussions" that leaves cities and forests burned, birds and fish dead and the earth shrouded in gray clouds of ash.
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