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All the Pretty Horses

By Cormac McCarthy

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| Audio Cassette | 9785556068087

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Book Description

All the Pretty Horses - the first volume of the Borders Trilogy - 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 off on an idyllic, sometimes comic advContinue

Critics

Where a man can be a man

In Cormac McCarthy’s latest novel, the young hero, imprisoned in a jail in Mexico and suffering harsh conditions, has a brilliant dream – a dream calling for some very earnest writing on the part of the author: You are not logged in If you have alrea ... (read full critics)

lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

Dream Work

All the Pretty Horses, which won the National Book Award for fiction in 1992, is the first volume of The Border Trilogy, and Cormac McCarthy’s sixth novel. The earlier ones are The Orchard Keeper (1965), Outer Dark (1968), Child of God (1973), Suttre ... (read full critics)

nybooks published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010

2 Reviews

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As always, I have only words of praise for McCarthy. Never would I have thought I would have loved a book about cowboys so much. So beautifully written....

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FrancineR said on Sep 5, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

I don't remember a single scene of this book, but the silence.

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lui said on Feb 18, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback