All The Pretty Horses

Name: All The Pretty Horses
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)
Author: Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 9780060818166

Author: Cormac McCarthy

Narrator: Frank Muller

Unabridged: 10 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper Audio

Published: 11/02/2004

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

All the Pretty Horses - the first volume of the Borders 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on August 15, 2020

I read this one a while ago and some of the scenes are still with me. And because of the continual flashes in remembrances I have to put this book into my top five of all time. The prose is lyrical, the characters three dimensional. The scene that comes back to me the most is the one where the two m......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on May 22, 2011

All the Pretty Horses isn’t quite as grim as other Cormac McCarthy work that I’ve read but considering that this includes The Road, Blood Meridian, No Country For Old Men and watching the HBO adaptation of his play The Sunset Limited, it's still so bleak that your average person will be depressed en......more