All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Vol. 1) by McCarthy, Cormac - 1992

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Knopf, 1992. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dustjacket. Black boards quarterbound in black cloth. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in gilt. 302pps. Stated First Edition. Mild rubbing to the board-bottoms and to the extremities. Also, a previous owner's signature is neatly penned on the ffep. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The text is immaculate; no reading wear. The price-clipped dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a touch of crinkling at the head of the spine; no chips, soiling, or tears. Overall, a very nice, presentable copy of this winner of both The National Book Award and The National Book Critics Circle Award.

"...A critical triumph, this is the story of John Grady Cole, who at 16 finds himself at the dying end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. To escape a society moving in all the wrong directions, Cole and two companions decide to seek their future in Mexico, a land at once beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. But what begins as an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, leads, in fact, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Within months, one of the boys is dead, and the other two aged beyond their years. A story about childhood passing, innocence and an American age, here is a grand story and an education in responsibility, revenge, and survival. All the Pretty Horses is truly a masterpiece...

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