This edition is part of the Picador Collection, a new list of the best in contemporary literature published in Picador's 50th Anniversary year. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival. The first volume in McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy, All The Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a vanished American age.
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.
Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Contemporary scholarly discussions also bring new insights into a work from a writer that many consider to be America’s finest living author.John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. This collection examines McCarthy’s book from various perspectives-historical, cultural, social, economic, ethnic, and literary. As a sociocultural, political, and economic tour de force, McCarthy’s novel remains compelling and provocative thirty years after it first captured the attention of the literary world in 1992. With America and Mexico sharing an unprecedented period of growth, Americans like McCarthy’s sixteen-year-old protagonist, John Grady Cole, and his best friend Lacey Rawlins could cross the border with ease, bringing into focus how both countries alternatingly accepted and resisted assimilation. The novel also highlights a homogenization of North America thanks to the increase in jobs across the continent as well as the expansion of the transportation system. Taking place in 1949, the novel explores the intimate story of relationships while at the same time presenting a global consideration of the American economic expansion that would set the tone for the second half of the twentieth century. The first of McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, it won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses is one of the most well-known works of the last four decades.
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