All the Pretty Horses - Picador Collection (Paperback)
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All the Pretty Horses - Picador Collection (Paperback)

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Paperback 320 Pages
Published: 04/08/2022
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Waterstones Says

Suffused with McCarthy’s trademark rough-hewn lyricism, All the Pretty Horses is the story of three US ranchers’ odyssey across the Mexican border. Mythic in conception and redolent of the richness of frontier culture, this modern masterpiece is a rugged morality tale that packs an almighty punch.

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.

All the Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781035003754
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 220 g
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 23 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

A darkly shining work . . . executed with consummate skill and much subtlety - the effect is magnificent - John Banville, author of The Sea, Observer

An exhilarating, exceptional novel - Spectator

All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece. - Financial Times

One of the greatest American novels of this or any time - Guardian

[A] totalizing reality, where meditation and resistance are two components of one reality, a destiny of wandering the borderlands of the U.S. and Mexico in the postwar twentieth century - Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room

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“Another masterpiece”

All the Pretty Horses is another wonderful evocative read from this gifted author. His book The Road lived with me for months after reading it, passages kept coming back into my head with their inspiring descriptive... More

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“Another masterpiece”

All the Pretty Horses is another wonderful evocative read from this gifted author. His book The Road lived with me for months after reading it, passages kept coming back into my head with their inspiring descriptive... More

Paperback edition
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