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All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. It was a bestseller, winning both the U.S. National Book Award [1] and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is the first of McCarthy's "Border Trilogy".
- Cormac McCarthy
- 1992
Set in 1949, All the Pretty Horses, the first novel in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, centers on John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old cowboy old enough to choose his way of life but too young to realize this choice in the face of familial and institutional resistance.
All the Pretty Horses is a 2000 American Western film produced and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, based on Cormac McCarthy's novel of the same name, and starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz. It premiered on December 25, 2000 to mostly negative reviews.
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- Cormac McCarthy
- 1992
All the Pretty Horses is the first of McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, a series of novels taking place in the “border country” between the United States and Mexico in the decade before and after World War II.
McCarthy’s 1992 novel All the Pretty Horses became the first novel of his “Border Trilogy,” followed by The Crossing (1994) and Cities of the Plain (1998). With All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy achieved a memorable combination of adventure, psychological intensity, and the violent clash of cultures.
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All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It is also the first of McCarthy's "Border Trilogy".
