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: 7.73

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Joseph Le
Jun 10, 2026
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
May 28, 2026
Hifalutin
Laflammet1970
Apr 20, 2026
Hated it
LitterBug
Nov 10, 2025
6/10 stars
Beautifully written but I was never particularly invested with the characters.
Sonia
May 01, 2025
7/10 stars
The outsiders but make it cowboy

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