| 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 OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Media Tie-in - Fiction | Westerns - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92050836 |
| Lexile Measure: 940 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.15" W x 7.95" (0.52 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
| 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. |