Movie Trailer for All the Pretty Horses (2000)Ĭormac McCarthy is a bestselling author whose works include All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and the two-part series, The Passengerand Stella Maris. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.īetween the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. McCarthy won the American National Book Award for All the Pretty Horses, which is the first volume in his Border Triology.

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. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1) Paperback Print, Jby Cormac McCarthy (Author) 4,709 ratings Book 1 of 3: The Border Trilogy See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 10.98 56 Used from 2.84 8 New from 71.69 15 Collectible from 43. John Grady Cole and his friend Lacey Rawlins. I will come to the conclusion that McCarthys novel is partly a. Audiobook Length: 11 hours and 15 minutes A novel, set in West Texas and northern Mexico in 1950 first published in 1992. Last, I like to discuss whether All the Pretty Horses may be read as a Bildungsroman.

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