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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)

All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1) Paperback | Pages: 302 pages

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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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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

Ive been sitting on this book review for weeks, needing to chew so many things over before I put it into words. I started the book and finished it and started it again, because it was the only thing I knew to do. Its wrecked me, a little. Pushed things knotted up deep down inside to the surface, like coming up from under a waterfall for air. Theres something visceral here, not just in the story itself but in the reading of it, more akin to eating and breathing than turning pages of a book. Its

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

Despite my great love for The Road, Id argue that my enjoyment of All the Pretty Horses was far from predetermined. To begin with, Ive recently been made aware (in discussions with fellow Goodreaders) that Ive never seen a single Clint Eastwood movie or even a non-Clint Eastwood Western. And although I grew up in the South (sort of), Im now an East Coast city guy whos never even gone camping if you dont count that college freshman orientation trip. Not only do I know jack-shit about horses and

I gave some thought to doing a two-sentences-and-one-word review of Cormac McCarthys All the Pretty Horses winner of the National Book Award but I decided not to. Dont get me wrong, it could be done that way. Its just that I didnt think I could do it justice that way.The reason for that isnt the characters. They are few, and they are finely drawn.Its also not the story. Thats stripped down to some classic essentials.In 1949, following the death of his cattle rancher grandfather, and in the

Ascent into Hell You read the first sentence of a Cormac McCarthy novel and you know that this is not Grisham or Connolly or Child or Crichton or King, certainly not Patterson, or anyone else writing fiction today. And before the first page is turned he has launched into one of his frenetic poetic riffs that lurches and rambles and stops and starts and doesn't care about punctuation and you can almost hear your high school English teacher scolding about grammar and run-on sentences but you know

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