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Original Title:	All the Pretty Horses
ISBN:	0679744398 (ISBN13: 9780679744399)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Border Trilogy #1
Characters:	John Grady Cole, Rawlins, Blevins, Alejandra
Setting:	Texas(United States) Mexico
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Fiction (1992), National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1992)

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All the Pretty Horses 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 adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

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Title	:	All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1)
Author	:	Cormac McCarthy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Vintage Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 302 pages
Published	:	June 29th 1993 by Vintage (first published May 11th 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Westerns. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels. Literary Fiction

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What a great writer, I've become a big fan. This is my fourth McCarthy book and I just love his style, his stories, the way he describes desert country...darkness all round, but so good...Does anyone know if McCarthy is still writing? I would love a new book....



My introduction to the fiction of Pulitzer Prize winner and Oprah Winfrey fan Cormac McCarthy is All the Pretty Horses, the first novel in McCarthy's so-called Border Trilogy, published in 1992. Westerns set in the post World War II country between Texas and Mexico, the trilogy continued with The Crossing and Cities of the Plain. The first seventy-five percent of this brooding, terse and darkly mesmerizing ranching tale is glorious, towering over the intersection of storytelling and language.

Cormac McCarthy, in his 1992 novel, (which begins his Border Trilogy) has again conjured up dark and somber images of the verges of human civilization both literally and metaphorically in Mexico.John Grady Cole and his friend leave 1949 Texas and cross the border into Mexico and in some respects goes back in time as the tone and setting could be a hundred years earlier. Cole works on a horse ranch and then because of his skill with horses is invited into the ranch house where he begins a

I agree, others may like it, but I did not and have no interest in reading his others. Glad to see I was not totally alone in my opinion

All the Pretty Horses isnt quite as grim as other Cormac McCarthy work that Ive read but considering that this includes The Road, Blood Meridian, No Country For Old Men and watching the HBO adaptation of his play The Sunset Limited, it's still so bleak that your average person will be depressed enough to be checked into a mental ward and put on suicide watch after finishing it.John Grady Cole is a sixteen year old cowboy in Texas a few years after World War II who was raised on his grandfathers

I seldom abandon books after reading just a couple of pages, but in this case I had no choice. Two pages into the book I was so annoyed by McCarthy's random use of apostrophes and near-total lack of commas that I felt I had better stop reading to prevent an aneurysm. I'm sure McCarthy is a great storyteller, but unless someone convinces me he has found a competent proof-reader who is not afraid to add some four thousand commas to each of his books, I'll never read another line he's written. I