EAN: 9781035003754

MCCARTHY CORMAC ALL THE PRETTY HORSES COLLECTIO...

The first in his legendary Border Trilogy  A ll The Pretty Horses was Cormac McCarthy's
breakthrough novel - a coming-of-age western that remains a classic of American literature. 
'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality  hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in
its power' - Stephen King  author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series  ' All the Pretty
Horses is indisputably a masterpiece' - Financial Times   1949. At sixteen years-old  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.
A grand love story  Cormac McCarthy's novel is about the passing of childhood  of innocence and
a vanished American age.   'One of the greatest American novels of this or any time' - Guardian
Adapted into a film starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz.   All the Pretty Horses is followed
in the Border Trilogy by The Crossing and Cities of the Plain .  Part of the Picador Collection
a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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