About this title: The first volume in McCarthy's Border Trilogy, ALL THE PRETTY HORSES begins with the death of John Grady Cole's grandfather. John Grady, age 16, has lived with his grandfather for much of his life, and when the old man dies and the family home--a ranch in Texas--is sold, John Grady and his old friend Lacey Rawlins take off for Mexico, looking for a place in a world that seems increasingly hostile. Almost immediately, they encounter trouble, and the trip is studded with death, loss, violence, stolen horses, and thwarted love. By the time John Grady returns home--alone--he is irrevocably ...
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Binding: Audiobook CASSETTE
Publisher: Random House Audio
ISBN-13:9780679425687ISBN:0679425683
Description: Very Good. 0679425683 Quality AUDIO CASSETTES in very good condition. Some shelf wear and damage to the case, but the tapes remain intact. HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN USED. Package has been written on. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679744399ISBN:0679744398
Description: Acceptable. A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (the dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Like New. Like New Condition. Audio Cassette. Case Like new. Quality guaranteed! In original artwork/packaging unless otherwise noted. read more
Description: Acceptable. Book shows wear to cover edges and spine. Corners bent/rounded. Cover may have folds or creases. Otherwise in good reading condition. read more
Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and creases. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679744399ISBN:0679744398
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. slight wearing on front cover. All inside pages look clean and crisp. A great book! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Vintage International (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: MacMillan
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780330331692ISBN:0330331698
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Light edge and corner wear. Light damage on front cover from sticker removal. Inscription inside. Tanning pages. No spine creases. Text in Spanish, English. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Edition Unstated
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679744399ISBN:0679744398
Description: Good. As issued No Jacket. Slight spine lean, corner bumps, reading crease to front cover, owner's inscription to interior cover, pages age toning, some dents to both covers(a couple of deep ones to rear cover has caused some dents to interior pages as well), and other light to moderate shopwear. read more
"I read this book due to the recommendations of my favorite book reviewer, my wife. I was truly amazed that I found it pedestrian. The casual lack of use of no quotation marks and throwing in Spanish with no translations made it frustrating and in places totally incoherent. His character development was still very good in spite of the of the language problem. If you speak and read Spanish it may be a better read, but if you don't, I wouldn't bother with this book."
"Starting to think that I really like McCarthy. I didn't really know what I was getting into with this one. First of all, the title is all full of wuss. However, I was pretty sure that it wasn't going to be a girly horse story like the title implies. I was not incorrect. This is a gritty western adventure full of manliness and blood and bullet wounds and knife wounds and other miscellaneous wounds. All in all, very good. I'm leaning a bit towards a 5 star rating."
"...and the boy rode into the parched land beyond the river, his breath steaming in plumes out of his nose into the cold, his horse grunting beneath him, and he wished it were a woman grunting, ok sighing maybe, ok he had no idea what a woman grunting under him would feel like, he was still a boy, he had felt once a girl's breast flutter and knew it was nothing like the cow teat he'd pulled the milk out of back at the barn but what else was there to think about there out on the plains, waiting for the Mexicans to come shoot him? And on and on the boy went, like the writer's beautiful sentences, which are what this book is essentially about, God bless him, and he's damn good at it too, damn good."
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