All the Pretty Horses: Book 1 of The Border Trilogy |
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| Authors: | McCarthy, Cormac |
| Topics: | Teen Topics, Pioneers & Westward Expansion, Family & Siblings |
| Lexile: | 940, |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC019000, FIC008000, FIC033000 |
| ISBN: | 9780307481306, Related ISBNs: 0307481301, 0375415874, 0394574745, 0517144638, 0679425683 |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 320, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Synopsis: 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.
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