All the Pretty Horses: Border Trilogy 1 (National Book Award Winner)

By Cormac McCarthy

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.

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Published Jun 29, 1993

320 pages

Average rating: 7.76

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Justin Hopper
Justin Hopper
7/10 stars
Pretty book, but weird characters that are also boring? Guy can write gud tho
Joseph Le
Joseph Le
10/10 stars
soy comandante de las yeguas. yo y yo solo. sin la caridad de estas manos no tengas nada

mccarthy really loves the world and man and horses
KrisPaw
KrisPaw
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Laflammet1970
Hated it
LitterBug
LitterBug
6/10 stars
Beautifully written but I was never particularly invested with the characters.

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