John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood.The first volume in McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy, All The Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about the passing of childhood, of innocence and a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival.Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
CONTRIBUTORS: Cormac McCarthyEAN: 9781035003754COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 230 gHEIGHT: 197 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Small Town & RuralWIDTH: 130 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Texas, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Sense of place
A darkly shining work . . . executed with consummate skill and much subtlety - the effect is magnificent, An exhilarating, exceptional novel, All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece.
Cormac McCarthy is the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, The Road, The Passenger, Stella Maris and No Country For Old Men. All the Pretty Horses forms part of the Border Trilogy, together with The Crossing and Cities of the Plain. Among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood.The first volume in McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy, All The Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about the passing of childhood, of innocence and a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival.Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
CONTRIBUTORS: Cormac McCarthyEAN: 9781035003754COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 230 gHEIGHT: 197 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Small Town & RuralWIDTH: 130 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Texas, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Sense of place
Cormac McCarthy is the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, The Road, The Passenger, Stella Maris and No Country For Old Men. All the Pretty Horses forms part of the Border Trilogy, together with The Crossing and Cities of the Plain. Among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
From the first couple of pages, it kept me on the edge of my seat. I love the way J. C. Rosenberg writes and this is a prime example of what reading should be like.