num_pages: 302
description: All the Pretty Horses tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Across the border Mexico beckons—beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With two companions, he sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
language: English
title: All the Pretty Horses
titlecomplete: All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
characters: John Grady Cole, Alejandra, Blevins, Rawlins
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adventure, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 117448
places: Texas, Mexico
series: The Border Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group