All the Pretty Horses [electronic resource] : Border (McCarthy) Series, Book 1
McCarthy, Cormac1992
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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. All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's sixth novel, is a cowboy odyssey for modern times. Set in the late 1940s, it features the travels and toils of a 16-year-old East Texan named John Grady Cole, caught in the agonizing purgatory between adolescence and adulthood. 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. Rootless and increasingly restive, Cole leaves Texas, accompanied by his friend Lacey Rawlins, and begins a journey across the vaquero frontier into the badlands of northern Mexico. In spite of its hard realities and spare telling, All the Pretty Horses is a lyrical and richly romantic story, chronicling-along with the erosion of the frontier-the loss of an era.
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Author:
McCarthy, Cormac, AuthorMuller, Frank, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Recorded Books, Inc., 1992
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Series:
Border Trilogy
Audience:
Reading grade level: 4-6
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781449871338
Language:
English
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BRN:
3999443
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