All the Pretty Horses
Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.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...
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Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679744399 (0679744398)
ASIN: 679744398
Publish date: June 29th 1993
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 302
Edition language: English
Series: The Border Trilogy -3 (#1)
This is ostensibly a Western. I, ostensibly, do not like Westerns. I've never made it through any western film unless you count Native American stories, and I don't. I'll grant you that it's set in the Southwest. But this is no normal Western. While reading it, it actually feels like a saga, the wor...
I am not what you would call the average Cormac McCarthy reader. Yes, I may fit the stereotype—white male with a beard in his thirties—but I defy most stereotypes and hope that someday I may be the poster child for “stereotypes be damned.” (It seems out of place to use quotes in a review of a McCart...
Świat można poznać jedynie poprzez jego obraz w ludzkich sercach Przez krótki czas trudno było mi przyzwyczaić się do stylu. Oswajanie trwało długo, bo prawie przez cały pierwszy tom trylogii. Jednak leniwy rytm kroczącego krok za krokiem konia przestaje przeszkadzać z chwilą, kiedy jeździec zacz...
bookshelves: autumn-2014, published-1992, western, series, drilling-mining-digging, filthy-lucre, fraudio, gambling, mexico, lit-richer, period-piece, recreational-homicide, adventure, ouch Read from October 03 to 06, 2014 Narrated by Frank MullerDescription: In the spring of 1948 on a small T...
Unlike almost every other human being on the planet, I don't like chocolate. No, I'm not allergic to it. I just don't like it. Unless you put it with peanut butter, in which case it is God's Own Gift and keep well away from my stash. http://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2014/07/book-day-7-chocolate...
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