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There is nothing left in Texas for John Grady, who loves the ranch and idealizes the cowboy's way of life. Only sixteen years old, John Grady runs away from home with his friend Rawlins. On horseback, they head toward the Mexican border, leading the idyllic, storybook life of migrant cowboys.
- Cormac McCarthy
- 1992
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All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. It was a bestseller, winning both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is the first of McCarthy's "Border Trilogy".
- Cormac McCarthy
- 1992
Book Summary. Set in west Texas about 125 miles from the Mexican border near Del Rio and Langtry, All the Pretty Horses is a story of loss and adventure. John Grady Cole, the main character, is just 16 years old and attending his grandfather's funeral when the novel opens.
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All the Pretty Horses is the story of this cowboy code of honor--the foundation of the Western lifestyle--put to the test. It is the story of the maturation of John Grady Cole in blood, as his romantic idealism is tried in a place where survival does not concede anything to propriety and nobility.
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