All the Pretty Horses

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301 pages ; 21 cm, 302 pages

English language

Published Dec. 26, 1993 by Vintage Books.

ISBN:
978-0-679-74439-9
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OCLC Number:
438784340
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All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller, and it won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Along with The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998), it constitues McCarthy's "Border Trilogy", an elegy for the American Frontier, written in an unconventional format which omits traditional Western punctuation (such as quotation marks) and makes use of polysyndetic syntax in a manner similar to that of Ernest Hemingway. The book was adapted as a 2000 eponymous film, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. (main source EN.wikipedia)

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reviewed All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (The Border Trilogy, #1)

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McCarthy uses language in a way where most of the meaning is in between the lines. Sparse and simple text creates powerfull images in my head while reading and writers love of country he writes of and its people can be sensed clearly.

All the Pretty Horses does not include as many tought-provoking contemplations as some other books I've written by McCarthy. However, after the cruel and nihilistic Blood Meridian, I enjoyed more human and positive description of the same theme.

I recommend this book for everyone enjoying beautiful language or westerns. If I had 14-year old relative, I would also buy this for them as it is really enjoyable coming of age type of book.

Subjects

  • Ranch life -- Fiction
  • Mexican-American Border Region -- Fiction
  • Texas -- Fiction

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