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Cormac McCarthy - All The Pretty Horses (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
Border Trilogy #1.
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 civilised; a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
All the Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece from Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy, 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.
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- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Good
- Category : Fiction - Modern Classics
- Published : 1992 (Picador)
- ISBN : 9780330510936
- PPC : LL250gm
- SKU : B000607
- RRP : £8.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'A uniquely brilliant book . . . told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting. One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time' - Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times.
"A darkly shining work . . . executed with consummate skill and much subtlety - the effect is magnificent." - John Banville, The Observer.
"An exhilarating, exceptional novel." - Spectator.
"In a single stride it takes McCarthy to the forefront of contemporary American fiction. All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece." - Financial Times.
The Author
Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr., July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter. He has written ten novels, two plays, two screenplays, and three short-stories, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic genres.
Featured Author . . . Cormac McCarthy