6/26/2023 0 Comments All the pretty horses pages![]() 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. 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. ![]() 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. With his parents already split up and his mother working in theater out of town, there is no longer reason for him to stay. John Grady Cole is a 16-year-old boy who leaves his Texas home when his grandfather dies. ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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