num_pages: 302
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.From the trade paperback edition.
language: English
title: All the Pretty Horses
titlecomplete: All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
characters: Rawlins, Alejandra, John Grady Cole, Blevins
genres: Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, Adventure, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Westerns, Novels
ratings_count: 117436
places: Mexico, Texas
series: The Border Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf