All the pretty horses, Cormac McCarthy
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All the pretty horses, Cormac McCarthy
Language
eng
Form of composition
not applicable
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
All the pretty horses
Oclc number
60405279
Responsibility statement
Cormac McCarthy
Series statement
The Border trilogy, v. 1
Summary
Set in 1949, this is the story of John Grady Cole, who, at the age of sixteen, finds himself at the losing end of a long generation of ranchers. His grandfather's death has just cut him off from the only life he has ever imagined wanting. Abandoned by his parents troubles, heading over the border seems the only way out of a society moving in all of the wrong directions so, with his friend Rawlins, he rides away. Soon enough, they acquire a hapless younger companion and jobs breaking horses on a hacienda. Within months, one of the boys is dead and childhood has passed for the other two, along with an era that once uniquely defined America