All the Pretty Horses
All the Pretty Horses
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Summary
The first in his legendary Border Trilogy, All The Pretty Horses was Cormac McCarthy's breakthrough novel – a coming-of-age western that remains a classic of American literature.
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All the Pretty Horses by Cormac Mccarthy
‘His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series 'All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece' – Financial Times 1949. At sixteen years-old, 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. A grand love story, Cormac McCarthy's novel is about the passing of childhood, of innocence and a vanished American age. ‘One of the greatest American novels of this or any time’ – Guardian Adapted into a film starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz. All the Pretty Horses is followed in the Border Trilogy by The Crossing and Cities of the Plain. Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
A darkly shining work. . executed with consummate skill and much subtlety - the effect is magnificent -- John Banville, author of The Sea * Observer *
An exhilarating, exceptional novel * Spectator *
All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece. * Financial Times *
One of the greatest American novels of this or any time * Guardian *
[A] totalizing reality, where meditation and resistance are two components of one reality, a destiny of wandering the borderlands of the U.S. and Mexico in the postwar twentieth century -- Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room
An exhilarating, exceptional novel * Spectator *
All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece. * Financial Times *
One of the greatest American novels of this or any time * Guardian *
[A] totalizing reality, where meditation and resistance are two components of one reality, a destiny of wandering the borderlands of the U.S. and Mexico in the postwar twentieth century -- Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room
Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, Child of God and The Passenger. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country for Old Men – the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of 89.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781035003754 |
| ISBN 10 | 1035003759 |
| Title | All the Pretty Horses |
| Author | Cormac Mccarthy |
| Series | Picador Collection |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2022-08-04 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of National Book Awards 1992 (Australia) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |