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List Price: $18.00 | | Publisher: Random House Audio
Salesrank: 1400969
Released: December 5, 2000 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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Editorial Review:
2 cassettes / 3 hours
Read by Brad Pitt
Listen to Brad Pitt read Cormac McCarthy's national bestseller and winner of
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.
Description of All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy):
Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age.
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy) Reviews:
Beautiful Book 
2009-11-26 - I guess I am late discovering Cormac McCarthy. I've heard of him for years but and now finally reading his novels. This is my third.
This is a highly stylized Western themed novel that combines cutting edge writing techniques with old fashion speech patterns. I wonder if there are really people who are so calm and cool, especially at that young age. And did people ever really say things like "yon side of the river."
Wonderful writing -a beautiful book.
and full stop and full stop 
2009-10-21 - Cormac and his writing and his books and the road is and out to and out-Faulkner Faulkner and but no talent and really like to use and does use and..
This. all. his books. are. like this. people who. are such. big fans of his. will be emabarrassed. (embarrassed should be spelled wrong.) like people who. read Ayn Rand. in their 20's and feel intellectual and will feel stupic to have read when they will be in their 40's. Does it is make sense and. is it post-modern.and. and. and. and. and.and.
Are you kidding me???
2009-10-04 - I'm only on the second page and cannot believe this book actually won awards! His least used punctuation is the comma, and the most used word is 'and.' Page two:
"He hung the hat on a peg by the door among slickers and blanketcoats and the odd pieces of tack and came to the stove and got his coffee and took it to the table. She opened the oven and drew out a pan of sweetrolls she'd made and put one on a plate and brought it over and set it in front of him together with a knife for the butter and she touched the back of his head with her hand before she returned to the stove."
And THIS won awards??? I'm stunned! What ever happened to writing literate prose? After 1.5 pages, my brain won't let go of the idea that people think this writing is acceptable English.
This is the third McCarty book I attempted to read. He may be great at research, but he seriously needs/needed a ghost writer! I'm still waiting to receive a copy of 'The Road, but have a suspicion it will be more of the same. A Pulitzer? Wow!
Wow...a "man's" book 
2009-09-02 - Wow, this book was amazing. Not sure how to describe it, but it reminds me of a true Western. Where nothing is ever easy, no matter who you are. Definitely a "macho" book about a man and his inner workings. Amazing read.
Great book--Make sure to read the other two first!
2009-08-29 - The great thing about this book is that it continues the stories of Billy Parham from THE CROSSING and John Grady Cole from ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, and puts them together at a later date. It doesn't matter which of the first two books in this trilogy you read first, but I definitely recommend reading both before delving into this book. The book stands on its own without them, but there's a lot of background that is occasionally referenced which makes the book even more enjoyable.
