That’s it. The end of the trilogy with Billy sitting under an underpass in and out of dream worlds in a lyrical finale to a sweeping, epic ‘novelone’. It’s so readable, so page-turningly easy to get lost in the drama that the overly romanticised caballero, John Grady, still seems plausible: as a vaquero. In fact, that’s the joy. After 1000 pages of S. Texas dialogue intersperced with Spanish, of details of cowboy life, and of sweeping cinematic description of course he’s plausible.

A great novel. A great novel sequence. A must-read.

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