All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece’ ‘Financial Times’.įollowing All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought. ‘In a single stride it takes McCarthy to the forefront of contemporary American fiction. ‘An exhilarating, exceptional novel’ ‘Spectator’. ‘A darkly shining work…Įxecuted with consummate skill and much subtlety the effect is magnificent’ John Banville, ‘Observer’. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival. ‘ 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. 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. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time’ Stephen Amidon, ‘Sunday Times’. Told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting. This is Volume One of the ‘Border Trilogy’.
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