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All the Pretty Horses by Cormac Mccarthy

ISBN: 9780785727835
Release Date: 29 Jun 1993
Average rating: (read by 73 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

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 in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.

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	sandyboy
	Rated it 1 days ago

bleak, unsettling, beautifull, bitter, and confusing. it is very hard to make my mind up on this one but it seems to have taught me spanish

	Scilly Full Review
	Rated it 9 months ago

Writers may be either plotters or stylists, but when one combines the two disciplines it can create something wonderful. All the Pretty Horses is a magnificent novel about the lost world of the old West and search by two young men from Texas to try to...

	mrwildflowers
	Rated it 10 months ago

Cormac McCarthy could make the phone book sound stark, real, and truly beautiful.

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