All the Pretty Horses: Border Trilogy 1 (National Book Award Winner) Contributor(s): McCarthy, Cormac (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679744398 ISBN-13: 9780679744399 Publisher: Vintage
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: June 1993 Annotation: Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. Click for more in this series: Vintage International |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Media Tie-in - Fiction | Westerns - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 92050836 |
Lexile Measure: 940(Not Available) |
Series: Vintage International |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.15" W x 7.95" L (0.52 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - South - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
Features: Ikids, Price on Product |
Awards: National Book Awards, Winner, Fiction, 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award, Winner, Fiction, 1992 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 68567 Reading Level: 4.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. |
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