Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses Paperback Book

A comingofage western set on the USMexico Border, All the Pretty Horses is the first instalment of Cormac McCarthy&#39s acclaimed Border Trilogy.&lsquoHis prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power&#39 &ndash Stephen King, author of the Dark Tower series&lsquoOne of the greatest American novels of this or any time&rsquo &ndash Guardian1949. At sixteen yearsold, 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. A classic of American literature and a grand love story, Cormac McCarthy&#39s novel is about the passing of childhood, of innocence and a vanished American age. Adapted into a film starring Matt Damon and Pen&eacutelope Cruz. All the Pretty Horses is followed in the Border Trilogy by The Crossing and Cities of the Plain. Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature. | Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses Paperback Book