All the Pretty Horses (McCarthy)

All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy #1)
Cormac McCarthy
Knopf Doubleday
301 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780679744399


Summary
Winner, 1992 National Book Award and National Book Critics's Circle Award

A critical triumph, this is the story of John Grady Cole, who at 16 finds himself at the dying end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself.

To escape a society moving in all the wrong directions, Cole and two companions decide to seek their future in Mexico, a land at once beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. But what begins as an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, leads, in fact, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Within months, one of the boys is dead, and the other two aged beyond their years.

A story about childhood passing, innocence and an American age, here is a grand story and an education in responsibility, revenge, and survival. All the Pretty Horses is truly a masterpiece. (From the publisher.)