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All the Pretty Horses

Border Trilogy 1 (National Book Award Winner)
By Cormac McCarthy
Series: Vintage International
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All the Pretty Horses follows sixteen-year-old John Grady Cole, the last in a long line of Texas ranchers, who embarks on a journey to Mexico with two companions. Their adventure is at times idyllic, at times comic, in a world where dreams are paid for in blood.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This National Book Award winner tells the story of John Grady Cole who, at 16, finds himself at the dying end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. "A true American original".--Newsweek.

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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 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.

Series: Vintage International

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Newsweek praised it as "Rambunctious, high-spirited ... All the Pretty Horses is a true American original."

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ISBN: 9780679744399

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 June 1993

Country: United States

Imprint: Vintage Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 232g

Pages: 320

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Cormac McCarthy Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction Penguin Books Series: Vintage International

About the Author

The novels of the American writer, CORMAC MCCARTHY, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men—the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. He died in 2023.

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