Publication Date: 04/08/2022 ISBN: 9781035003754 Category: Tag:

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication Date: 04/08/2022 ISBN: 9781035003754 Category: Tag:
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In a rapidly-changing post war America , two runaways dream of a better life. Taking only their horses, they cross a Texas haunted by the ghost-riders of the Comanche and head for Mexico. A novel starting as a boyhood adventure matures into something altogether darker as the boy’s journey into adulthood encompasses the beauty and danger of the landscape and of the people they encounter. Lyrical, frightening, haunting and uplifting. Rarely has the bond between horse and rider been better described as their mutually-dependent futures unfold. – Sue

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FEATURED ON A GREAT BOOK WITH BARACK OBAMA

‘One of the greatest American novels of this or any time’ GUARDIAN

A coming-of-age western and a grand love story, All the Pretty Horses is a classic of American literature and the first instalment in Cormac McCarthy’s acclaimed Border Trilogy.

1949. At sixteen years-old, John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

A classic of American literature and a grand love story, Cormac McCarthy’s novel is about the passing of childhood, of innocence and a vanished American age.

Adapted into a film starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz.

All the Pretty Horses is followed in the Border Trilogy by The Crossing and Cities of the Plain.

Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

Publisher Review

A darkly shining work . . . executed with consummate skill and much subtlety – the effect is magnificent — John Banville * Observer * An exhilarating, exceptional novel * Spectator * All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece. * Financial Times *

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