All the Pretty Horses: Border Trilogy 1 (National Book Award Winner)

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Aug 11, 2010 - Fiction - 320 pages
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.

Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
 

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Contents

Section 1
Section 2
16
Section 3
18
Section 4
26
Section 5
59
Section 6
97
Section 7
117
Section 8
122
Section 11
139
Section 12
153
Section 13
219
Section 14
252
Section 15
294
Section 16
300
Section 17
305
Section 18
306

Section 9
125
Section 10
132
Section 19
308
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About the author (2010)

The novels of the American writer, Cormac McCarthy, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men—the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. He died in 2023.

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