[The Border Trilogy 01] • All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy 1)

[The Border Trilogy 01] • All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy 1)
Authors
McCarthy, Cormac
Publisher
Picador
Tags
general , modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) , fiction , contemporary , fiction - general , general & literary fiction , classics , adventure
ISBN
9780330510936
Date
1992-05-11T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.22 MB
Lang
en
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Reissued to coincide with the UK film release of The Road Volume One of the Border Trilogy ‘A uniquely brilliant book . . . told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting. One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time’ Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times

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.

All the Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with 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.