All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0330488430 Global Overview for this book
Registered by winglmn60wing of Spotswood, Victoria Australia on 9/29/2014
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Journal Entry 1 by winglmn60wing from Spotswood, Victoria Australia on Monday, September 29, 2014
Culled during a clean up of my bookshelf... This one is now registered and ready to travel..

From Publishers Weekly...

'This is a novel so exuberant in its prose, so offbeat in its setting and so mordant and profound in its deliberations that one searches in vain for comparisons in American literature. None of McCarthy's previous works, not even the award-winning The Orchard Keeper (1965) or the much-admired Blood Meridian (1985), quite prepares the reader for the singular achievement of this first installment in the projected Border Trilogy. John Grady Cole is a 16-year-old boy who leaves his Texas home when his grandfather dies. With his parents already split up and his mother working in theater out of town, there is no longer reason for him to stay. He and his friend Lacey Rawlins ride their horses south into Mexico; they are joined by another boy, the mysterious Jimmy Blevins, a 14-year-old sharpshooter. Although the year is 1948, the landscape--at some moments parched and unforgiving, at others verdant and gentled by rain--seems out of time, somewhere before history or after it. These likable boys affect the cowboy's taciturnity--they roll cigarettes and say what they mean--and yet amongst themselves are given to terse, comic exchanges about life and death. In McCarthy's unblinking imagination the boys suffer truly harrowing encounters with corrupt Mexican officials, enigmatic bandits and a desert weather that roils like an angry god. Though some readers may grow impatient with the wild prairie rhythms of McCarthy's language, others will find his voice completely transporting. In what is perhaps the book's most spectacular feat, horses and men are joined in a philosophical union made manifest in the muscular pulse of the prose and the brute dignity of the characters. "What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them," the narrator says of John Grady. As a bonus, Grady endures a tragic love affair with the daughter of a rich Spanish Hacendado , a romance, one hopes, to be resumed later in the trilogy. '

Journal Entry 2 by winglmn60wing at Queen Street Rescue in Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Saturday, March 19, 2016

Released 8 yrs ago (3/20/2016 UTC) at Queen Street Rescue in Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia

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Journal Entry 3 by bronwyna at Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Friday, March 25, 2016
Picked up at last weeks Melbourne meetup. Wasn't going to take any books, but cannot resist a Cormac McCarthy, thanks Lynn. Will go onto my TBR so "heaven knows" when I will get around to reading it.

Journal Entry 4 by Billbooks at Malvern East, Victoria Australia on Friday, March 15, 2019
Found this in a bag of books in the garage not sure with the how's or why's but there you have it.

Journal Entry 5 by Billbooks at Nova Cinema in Carlton, Victoria Australia on Monday, September 16, 2019

Released 4 yrs ago (9/16/2019 UTC) at Nova Cinema in Carlton, Victoria Australia

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Good book for a theme release so shall leave at the Nove Cinema early this afternoon

Journal Entry 6 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at Carlton, Victoria Australia on Monday, November 11, 2019
Arrived a little early to my film at cinema nova, so picked up this to read whilst I wait.

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