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All The Pretty Horses - Vol. One The Border Trilogy

All The Pretty Horses - Vol. One The Border Trilogy

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All The Pretty Horses - Vol. One The Border Trilogy

by McCarthy, Cormac

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ISBN 10
0679744398
ISBN 13
9780679744399
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Toronto, Canada: Vintage International, 1993 Book is clean and solid. A modern day western novel full of horse, gunplay and romance.. First Thus. Pictorial Cover/Softbound. Very Good +/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Major Publisher.

Synopsis

Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has also written plays and screenplays. This novel, All The Pretty Horses , won the National Book Award in 1992. The story reads like a Western novel, but is set in 1949 and revolves around the life of a 16-year old Texan named John Grady Cole. After his parent’s marriage ends, he finds himself at the end of a long line of ranchers, without a family ranch to work. So he sets out for Mexico on horseback with two companions. By turns both comic and tragic, the elaborate character development and McCarthy’s superb descriptive style make this book a rare treat. All the Pretty Horses is the first volume in the Border Trilogy . The other two volumes are The Crossing and Cities of the Plain .

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On Feb 15 2021, a reader said:
I love this book. The story is gripping and evokes all kinds of emotions. The chacters are so well developed you feel like you know them personally. Descriptions of the land they travel through bring to mind the dry and breathless heat of the desert. The action scenes come to life before your mind's eye. It is superb.
On May 18 2011, For2itous said:
McCarthy does have a vivid descriptive style but the plot is predictable. Where did he get the title? Got so tired of the characters lighting up a cigaret.Don't quite understand why it got the National Book Award.
On Jul 7 2007, Fict said:
A great book, but not McCarthy's best, by a long shot.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
200075
Title
All The Pretty Horses - Vol. One The Border Trilogy
Author
McCarthy, Cormac
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Very Good +
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Edition
First Thus
ISBN 10
0679744398
ISBN 13
9780679744399
Publisher
Vintage International
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
Date Published
1993
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords
NOVEL, TRILOGY, BORDER TRILOGY

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