All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy) - Softcover

McCarthy, Cormac

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330510932 ISBN 13: 9780330510936

Verlag: Picador, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

'A uniquely brilliant book . . ., told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting. One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time' Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins., Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood. All the Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece from Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy, and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival.

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In a single stride it takes McCarthy to the forefront of contemporary American fiction. All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece. * Financial Times * An exhilarating, exceptional novel * Spectator * A darkly shining work . . . executed with consummate skill and much subtlety - the effect is magnificent -- John Banville * Observer *

Biografía del autor:

Cormac McCarthy is the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, The Road and No Country For Old Men. All the Pretty Horses forms part of the Border Trilogy, together with The Crossing and Cities of the Plain. Among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0330510932
• ISBN 13: 9780330510936
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320