All the Pretty Horses
About this book
*All the Pretty Horses* is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller, and it won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Along with *The Crossing* (1994), and C*ities of the Plain* (1998), it constitues McCarthy's "Border Trilogy", an elegy for the American Frontier, written in an unconventional format which omits traditional Western punctuation (such as quotation marks) and makes use of polysyndetic syntax in a manner similar to that of Ernest Hemingway.
The book was adapted as a 2000 eponymous film, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.
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The Border Trilogy · 3 books
In publication order- 1 All the Pretty Horses 1992 This book
- 2 The Crossing 1994
- 3 Cities of the Plain 1998
Subjects
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- american, mexico-fiction
- americans
- award:national_book_award=1992
- award:national_book_award=fiction
- award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1992
- award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction
- coming of age
- cowboys
- cowboys-western stories
- fiction
- fictional works publication type
- fiction, coming of age
- fiction, romance, general
- fiction, westerns
- horsemen and horsewomen
- large type books
- mexican-american border region
- mexico
- mexico, fiction
- national book award winner
- national book critics circle award winner
- prisoners
- prisoners-fiction
- ranch life
- readers
- romance norte americano
- spanish language
- texas, fiction
- travel
- western stories