All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy · 1992 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

With his grandfather dead and the Texas ranch sold out from under him, sixteen-year-old John Grady Cole rides south into Mexico with a friend and, uninvited, a boy on a horse he almost certainly stole. Work breaking horses on a great hacienda brings him the owner's daughter and the close attention of her great-aunt. The first volume of a border trilogy, and the book that took its author off the small presses.

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