All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1)

McCarthy, Cormac

ISBN 10: 0679744398 / ISBN 13: 9780679744399

Published by Vintage, 1993

About this Item

First Vintage International Edition, June 1993, so stated. First printing with complete number row including 1 at the base of the copyright page. List of titles by McCarthy on end paper lists only to Blood Meridian. No mention of the subsequent books in this trilogy. National Book Award Winner sticker to front panel which duplicates the front panel of the hardcover edition.Faint tanning to page edges. No reader's creases, bumps, tears, scratches, etc. and appears unread. Seller Inventory # JD5894

Bibliographic Details

Title: All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, ...

Publisher: Vintage

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition, International Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

Review:

Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. 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. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age.