The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for … dreams are paid for in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.
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Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, a novel set in the late 1940s, kept me spellbound from beginning to end. John Grady Cole’s grandfather has just died and the family’s east Texas ranch is for sale. His parents are separated, his father is ill, and it is evident that John Grady, 16, is now on his own. He and his best friend Lacey Rawlins, …
An American Master, Cormac McCarthy is worth every minute invested.
Great book. I enjoyed it.
The prose. The cadence. All the Pretty Horses is a memorizing novel, not just because of the language but also because of the characters. They are vivid and layered, while McCarthy’s writing style just flows like poetry of the soul.
Following sixteen-year-old Grady Cole as he leaves his family’s Texas Ranch and sets out to Mexico, All the Pretty …
One of my all time favorites.
Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses is a book that will stay with you for a long time after the last page is turned. Whether you regard it as a ‘coming of age’ or a western or a step back in time, it doesn’t matter: the writing is beautiful and the characters come alive. I’ve read reviews that criticize the book for having no quotation …
The Borders Trilogy in general is great, and this volume is the top on the heap. Of course, with CM, you get one of the most original voices in fiction America has ever produced. That is on display here throughout. As for the story itself, it takes plenty of amazing and gut-wrenching turns. I think it asks you to consider what friendship means and …
I read this one a while ago and some of the scenes are still with me. And because of the continual flashes in remembrances I have to put this book into my top five of all time. The prose is lyrical, the characters three dimensional. The scene that comes back to me the most is the one where the two main characters are befriended by a kid down in …
As far as I’m concerned, Cormac McCarthy is our greatest living author and one of the best all-time. Read him.
Cormac McCarty is one of our finest writers. This book of a young man in the West is superb.
Cormac McCarthy is an original – and this may be his finest book. The language has a raw immediacy that almost pops off the page. The tale of cowboys taking horses into Mexico is flavored with the harshness of the land and the people and moves as surely and swiftly as the horses themselves.
One of the best coming of age stories ever. A classic.
There isn’t anything I didn’t like about Cormac McCarthy’s All the Prety Horses. It’s a fabulous Historal Western!
It didn’t keep my interest. The lingo was probably true to the era, however it took too much from the message. It may appeal to males more than females…but the title fooled me.
Great novel by the great Cormac McCarthy–read it!!
Can’t wait to read the next one.
Loved this book, and the movie
A lyrical western with a style unlike anything I’ve read. A book that challenges the reader as much as it entertains. As masculine a love story as I’ve encountered, as unrelenting in its honesty as a writer can manage.
This trilogy is what got me hooked on Cormac McCarthy. I read all three and then undertook the reading of all his novels. Amazing style, characters–haunting stories that really stick with you.
A road trip novel, but with horses.
McCarthy describes stuff so realistically that by the end of this story I almost believed I could bust broncos and cauterize a bullet hole using my Colt revolver as a branding iron.
My only complaint is that there is a lot of dialogue in Spanish, which I don’t understand. It’s not too difficult to figure …