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All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

All The Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy
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  • First Published:
  • Apr 1, 1992, 401 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Nov 2002, 301 pages
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J F Freedman

all the pretty horses
The greatest American novel of the last 40 years. Homeric in scope, style, and feeling. Too bad McCarthy died before he could win the Nobel Prize.
Pete Lester

All The Pretty Horses
One of the best books you will read. Five Stars. Great film as well. Conrad McCormick.
Katherine

One of my favorite books ever!
This book, and the other two in the Border Trilogy, captured my heart from the beginning. McCarthy does a fabulous job with character development, so you feel like you really know the main character and understand how he thinks as he comes of age. To top this off, what impressed me most is McCarthy's ability to describe the land, the people in it, the animals, the sky, etc. There are very few books where I really feel as if I'm place, but All the Pretty Horses took me from the U.S. to Mexico and never let me go. Some might need the first 30-50 pages to really get into this book, and the descriptions do make for a slower-paced novel. It's not a thriller, and it doesn't read like one. Personally, I can't recommend it highly enough. I've read it twice. I've actually read this one and the Crossing twice because I had to read them again when Cities of the Plains finally came out.
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Suzanne G.

So good . . .
This book is the first in a trilogy. I wondered at first if I was reading the book with such wonderful reviews or was it a “same title” book. Thank goodness, after taking more time with my reading, slowing down and even rereading the Spanish dialogue to get the gist of the conversation, I fell in love. John Grady Cole will be a favorite character henceforth. A wonderful story.
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