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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679744399
ISBN: 0679744398
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: June 29, 1993
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: June 29, 1993
Sales Rank: 2251
Studio: Vintage
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Product Description:
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.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.Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.
Amazon.com Review:
Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courageand loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessedTexan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his palLacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughablebut deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures ontheir way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Colefalls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerianprose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers willbe mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age.
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Rating:  - No Country for John Cole
Frank Muller does an excellent job narrating this novel by Cormac McCarthy.Moreover, listening to the Audio CD allows the listener to sidestep the McCarthy's liberties with the punctuation e.g. the absence of quotation marks.This isn't to demean McCarthy's prose; far from it, he presents a nostalgic picture of Texas and Mexico in the 1940's.Indeed, one of themes seems to be how this `country' is disappearing and being replaced by a modern, industrial one.The hero of the novel, John Grady ... Read More
Rating:  - Nice story but way too artsy writing
Just read this book. Like all of McCarthy's stories, this one pulls at your heart. A superman cowboy falling in love with the perfect senorita in Mexico. But in my humble opinion, the writing is too deep, too artsy, too ambitious. It's like he's trying to win a trophy for elegance. I found myself reading many of his sentences over and over and over trying to figure out what exactly he was saying. For many of the sentences, I still don't know. Clueless. One sentence took up half the page, and rambled ... Read More
Rating: - A compelling story that sacrifices some of its insight, in favor of action and adventure
I really enjoyed this novel, although it's probably more highly praised than it deserves to be.You can tell its serious literature because of the general lack of punctuation and unconventional composition.McCarthy's writing style is likely to be off-putting to some, but there is a lot to like about this novel.While novels that are branded (rightly or wrongly) as works of serious literature generally have something to say, they often don't have a story to tell.This is something that I really appreciate ... Read More
Rating: - A Masterpiece
McCarthy is a great writer, and this a great American novel.The novel is conventionally plotted and very readable.Like "The Road", it is a book that one can love; it does not require the effort that the novels of writers like Pynchon or Dellilo do, nor does it tax the reader's patience.Reader-friendly fiction is a good thing, and the novel's accessability makes it no less literary or substantial.
McCarthy's prose is breathtaking.His descriptions of the landscape, his dialogue (including ... Read More
Rating:  - The word And
I agree with mr. niceguy.What is with McCarthy and his excess use of word 'and'?Admittedly, the word 'and' is very important in the English language, however, excessive use of this word is outrageously ignorant, not to mention very distracting?You hear 'and'quite a bit in everyday speech, I admit.But no one really use 'and' like a gazillion times in one sentence, like McCarthy attempts in all of his books, not just in 'All the Pretty Horses'.The first McCarthy's book that I read is 'The Road'and I have ... Read More
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