All The Pretty Horses Low Price CD: All The Pretty Horses Low Price CD
Winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionAll the Pretty Horses—the first volume of the Border Trilogy—tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Across the border Mexico beckons—beautiful and desolate, rugged and...
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Winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionAll the Pretty Horses—the first volume of the Border Trilogy—tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Across the border Mexico beckons—beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With two companions, he sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780062119261 (0062119265)
Publish date: September 13th 2011
Publisher: HarperAudio
Edition language: English
Series: The Border Trilogy -3 (#1)
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