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May 02, 2018RogerDeBlanck rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
All the Pretty Horses is the first novel in McCarthy’s remarkable The Border Trilogy. It chronicles the plight of sixteen-year-old John Grady Cole. He is a young man with an extraordinary love for the land and an equally unique devotion for the rearing of horses. When his grandfather dies and his parents separate, his mother plans to sell the ranch John grew up on in southern Texas. To escape the turmoil in his life, John sets out on horseback with his friend to explore the desert wilderness beyond the border in Mexico. John Grady’s quest for solace becomes a trial of survival and a search for decency in the face of madness. In examining the cruelty of the human condition, McCarthy locates through John Grady a redemptive quality that resonates with the harshest of lessons for the young man. No one creates mood and atmosphere in quite the same vivid and breathtaking fashion as does McCarthy. The beauty and precision of his prose wields a biblical-like power as he captures the merciless borderland and the depths of one’s fortitude and resilience. All the Pretty Horses is a masterpiece of contemporary American literature.