All the Pretty Horses : Border Trilogy 1 (National Book Award Winner)

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.The first volume in McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy,All The Pretty Horsesis an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival.This edition is part of the Picador Collection, a new list of the best in contemporary literature published in Picador's 50th Anniversary year. McCarthy's eagerly anticipated new novels,The PassengerandStella Maris, will be published by Picador in October 2022. All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller, and it won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Along with The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998), it constitues McCarthy's "Border Trilogy", an elegy for the American Frontier, written in an unconventional format which omits traditional Western punctuation (such as quotation marks) and makes use of polysyndetic syntax in a manner similar to that of Ernest Hemingway. The book was adapted as a 2000 eponymous film, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. (main source EN.wikipedia)

with The 1998 Publication Of cities Of The Plain, Cormac Mccarthy's Acclaimed Border Trilogy Is Now Complete. The First And Most Admired Book Of The Series Is Mccarthy's National Book Award-winning all The Pretty Horses. In Highly Evocative Prose That Puts The Reader Firmly In The Saddle, all The Pretty Horses Follows The Progress Of Laconic 16-year-old Texan John Grady Cole, His Pal Lacey Rawlins, And The Mysterious Young Sharp Shooter Jimmy Blevins As They Ride Across The Border Into Mexico In Search Of Adventure.

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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 RoadAll 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.Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick-- a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins-- encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance ±All the Pretty Horses? cuenta sobre el joven John Grady Cole, el último de una larga lista de rancheros de Texas. Al otro lado de la frontera, México atrae, hermoso y desolado, robusto y cruelmente civilizado. Con dos compañeros, se embarca en una aventura idílica, a veces cómica, hacia un lugar donde los sueños se pagan con sangre Teenager John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, has nothing left to stay for. Across the border Mexico beckonsbeautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With neighbor Rawlins, and scruffy boy, he rides toward an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure