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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679744398
ISBN-139780679744399
eBay Product ID (ePID)813866
Product Key Features
Book TitleAll the Pretty Horses : Border Trilogy 1 (National Book Award Winner)
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1993
TopicSagas, Literary, Coming of Age, Westerns
GenreFiction
AuthorCormac McCarthy
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN92-050836
Dewey Edition20
Series Volume NumberNo. 1
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
Edition DescriptionMovie Tie-In
SynopsisNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road 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., 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., NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road 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.
Read it twice. I was the same age as the young boys (16 and 17) who were the main characters that loved, talked and whispered to their horses in the early 1900's. They travel to Mexico to see what it's like and work for a family that herds and breaks horses. There is a love story and because of a young acquaintance they meet on the road, the two end up in a Mexican prison where they get into fights for survival. There is much violence in this book.
I had ordered a copy that may have been marked up with lines and notes. It was, and the marks made no sense and were distracting. The story itself was a #10. Being I have read thousands of books, a story has to be remarkable for me to give it a #10.