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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This book reminded me of my own teen adventures: canoeing down a river, diving off a cliff, riding bicycles with friends on a hundred-mile journey, taking chances without our parents knowing…sometimes it went well…sometimes it went…well…
Thought provoking. Captivating story.
One of his best
Not normally the genre that i would read, but thoroughly enjoyable. Part of a trilogy.
This is my first Cormac McCarthy book, but I can guarantee it won’t be the last.
Some extraordinary writing in this book – I can easily see why it won several national awards. Highly descriptive, romantic, enthralling and tragic, it is a masterpiece.
Love how he captured this period in time in the old west, as well as tells the story with the (sparse) dialog.
Cormac McCarthy… nothing else needs to be said.
All the Pretty Horses is the first novel in McCarthy’s remarkable The Border Trilogy. It chronicles the plight of sixteen-year-old John Grady Cole. He is a young man with an extraordinary love for the land and an equally unique devotion for the rearing of horses. When his grandfather dies and his parents separate, his mother plans to sell the …
This is what I call a hangover book: the mood and message stay with you for days after you finish reading it. In fact, there are layers of meaning, so that new insights keep occurring, Warning: Be careful selecting the next book you read immediately after All the Pretty Horses. I chose a typical Agatha Christie mystery, and it seemed trivial, even …
It is hard to read other novelists after reading McCarthy. He is phenomenal.
Beautiful language and imagery combined with superb storytelling, I reread it upon completion to see how the author managed to enthrall me so completely.
One of my favorite books. So wonderfully written. McCarthy’s ability to pull the soul out of his characters through the written word is unmatched.
Made me wanna be a cowboy !!!
No one writes like Cormac McCarthy
I liked the actual writing of this book! Beautifully written.
All the Pretty Horses is probably Cormac McCarthy’s most palatable work, straddling a comfortable line between the stark prose that defines his later work and spurts of Faulknerian language one might recall from his earlier novels. I have some issues with the white gaze in this one. It’s present in the rest of the Border Trilogy, as well as Blood …