Particularize Of Books All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1)
| Title | : | All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | Cormac McCarthy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Vintage Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 302 pages |
| Published | : | June 29th 1993 by Vintage (first published May 11th 1992) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Westerns. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels. Literary Fiction |
Cormac McCarthy
Paperback | Pages: 302 pages Rating: 3.99 | 89719 Users | 5821 Reviews
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All the Pretty Horses tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Across the border Mexico beckons—beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With two companions, he sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.Point Books Concering All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1)
| Original Title: | All the Pretty Horses |
| ISBN: | 0679744398 (ISBN13: 9780679744399) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Border Trilogy #1 |
| Characters: | John Grady Cole, Rawlins, Blevins, Alejandra |
| Setting: | Texas(United States) Mexico |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award for Fiction (1992), National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1992) |
Rating Of Books All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1)
Ratings: 3.99 From 89719 Users | 5821 ReviewsCriticize Of Books All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1)
All the Pretty Horses isnt quite as grim as other Cormac McCarthy work that Ive read but considering that this includes The Road, Blood Meridian, No Country For Old Men and watching the HBO adaptation of his play The Sunset Limited, it's still so bleak that your average person will be depressed enough to be checked into a mental ward and put on suicide watch after finishing it.John Grady Cole is a sixteen year old cowboy in Texas a few years after World War II who was raised on his grandfathersRating: 2* of fiveThe Publisher Says: The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, 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. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.My
I agree, others may like it, but I did not and have no interest in reading his others. Glad to see I was not totally alone in my opinion
I gave some thought to doing a two-sentences-and-one-word review of Cormac McCarthys All the Pretty Horses winner of the National Book Award but I decided not to. Dont get me wrong, it could be done that way. Its just that I didnt think I could do it justice that way.The reason for that isnt the characters. They are few, and they are finely drawn.Its also not the story. Thats stripped down to some classic essentials.In 1949, following the death of his cattle rancher grandfather, and in the
This western of new antiquity flows with a horse's grace and bursts into furious and powerful charges. McCarthy's pen grazes upon lush words. His verbs gallop, his adjectives whinny and snort. There is a subdued, wild loneliness. The populous within the pages wander like herds or rally in a tense, motionless pack ready to pounce, while mere boys -more man than most- wander through them ready for love, ready for death.These characters breath and sweat and bleed. The reader comes to know the true
Cormac McCarthy holds a unique position in the literary community: Practically untouchable. He has both the guts and the gumption to wade into drowning pools that other authors can't dip a toe in. McCarthy is well known for his acute sense of southern darkness, often writing about the depths of depravity people have sunk to, putting a magnifying glass to the appalling violence humans engage in on the fringes of civilization. He does so with a wisdom and unflinching eye rarely found in
Ive been sitting on this book review for weeks, needing to chew so many things over before I put it into words. I started the book and finished it and started it again, because it was the only thing I knew to do. Its wrecked me, a little. Pushed things knotted up deep down inside to the surface, like coming up from under a waterfall for air. Theres something visceral here, not just in the story itself but in the reading of it, more akin to eating and breathing than turning pages of a book. Its
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