This is such a book and it is filled with the talk of the time, which seems to be a lot about SHIT. While his books have some humor, they usually have lots of cruelty. You will feel that you are living in that time and that place. He can put you in the country through description. McCormick can be, as he is in this book a very descriptive writer.

YOU CAN'T TELL WHAT IS IN A COUNTRY LIKE THAT UNTIL YOU ARE DOWN THERE IN IT. In spite of its hard realities and spare telling, All the Pretty Horses is a lyrical and richly romantic story, chronicling - along with the erosion of the frontier - the loss of an era.

Rootless and increasingly restive, Cole leaves Texas, accompanied by his friend Lacey Rawlins, and begins a journey across the vaquero frontier into the badlands of northern Mexico.

Set in the late 1940s, it features the travels and toils of a 16-year-old East Texan named John Grady Cole, caught in the agonizing purgatory between adolescence and adulthood.Īt the start of the novel, Cole's grandfather has just died, his parents have permanently separated, and the family ranch, upon which he had placed so many boyish hopes, has been sold. All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's sixth novel, is a cowboy odyssey for modern times. Cormac McCarthy is a quiet, unassuming presence in American fiction today, but like the slow, measured voices of many of his characters, he speaks with an authority and conviction that demands an audience.

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