Language: English
Adventure fiction Adventure stories Americans Bildungsromane Bildungsromans Boys Coming of Age Cowboys Crime & Thriller Crime & mystery Fiction Fiction - General General Literary Media Tie-In Media Tie-In - General Mexican-American Border Region Mexico Movie or Television Tie-In Movie-TV Tie-In - General Performing Arts Prisoners Ranch life Ranch life - Fiction Reading Group Guide Romance Screenplays Texas Texas - Fiction Westerns Westerns - General Wilderness areas
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: Jun 28, 1993
Description:
SUMMARY: 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.