All the Pretty Horses

ByCormac McCarthy

Release Date: 1992-04-21
Genre: Literary Fiction

Score: 4.5

4.5

From 674 Ratings

Description

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road

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.

Reviews

Great Read
5
By Readdds4Life
The lack of punctuation took a long while to get used to, but the story and literary style of writing was undeniably heart-rendering.
Beautiful book
5
By Mary Jean S
Stunning imagery and voice. Loved the whole thing!
A Classic
5
By Donnushka
This epic tale is beautifully written, in the language of the Texas-México border. A bit of Hemingway in its verbal spareness but more Tolstoy in its story range.
No quotation marks!
1
By BillyBobJoeWayne
Idk if it’s a faulty download or if it was published without them, but it’s hard to follow. The book itself is wonderfully written, however.
In reference to what was said
5
By ScrewTheRest
The book was great. His poetic prose as also stated, was meant to have odd and broken standards of grammar. His writing takes you through motions with the story and characters. It’s made in a way it sounds like sitting on the porch while grandpa tells a story. Although it was brutal. I loved it. Took me back.
Ebook version is garbage
1
By CogesUnChivo
The digital version is complete garbage. It has no commas quotation marks and it just rambles on and on and on and it's very hard to read this version because the shortage of punctuation makes it difficult to know where the author Cormac wanted the reader to pause or to emphasize a certain point.
Awful book
1
By Jamboree 1357
No plot at all.
Blood
5
By GMALS WIZARDS
COOL COOL COOL COOL COOOL!!! BLOODY ALL KINDA BLOODS! ITS MUY CALIENTE
Gorgeous
4
By Yyyhgtfrdes
Drop dead beautiful prose. Many times I had goosebumps. Some parts of his writing left me awestruck. The Rembrandt of literature.
All The Pretty Horses
5
By Keenanbeenan
This western novel reads like literature; everything has meaning.