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All the Pretty Horses: Book 1 of The Border Trilogy
Part coming-of-age novel, part horse opera, this novel won the National Book Award. From the publisher: "Cormac McCarthy is a quiet, unassuming presence in American fiction today, but like the slow, measured voices of many of his characters, he speaks with an authority and conviction that demands an audience. At the start of the novel, Cole's grandfather has just died, his parents have permanently separated, and the family ranch, upon which he had placed so many boyish hopes, has been sold. All the Pretty Horses is a cowboy odyssey for modern times, a lyrical and richly romantic story, chronicling - along with the erosion of the frontier - the loss of an era."
About the Book
Publisher’s description:
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.
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