NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the ...
He'd turned the horses into the pasture on the far side of the road and he sat for a long time watching down the road ... they wept and they wailed and then they came back down out of the cemetery into the road helping each other along ...
All the Pretty Horses, the first novel of the Border Trilogy, published in 1992, was an international bestseller, winning both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
The first book in a trilogy centreing on John Grady Cole, the last survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers , who runs off to Mexico after his mother sells their ranch and cuts him off from the only life he has ever wanted; This title ...
John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers.
All the Pretty Horses
All the Pretty Horses: A Novel
Sixteen year old John Cole wants to grow up on his grandfather's ranch and live his life freely. When his grandfather dies, John suffers. He takes off for Mexico, but instead of escape and renewal, he finds a blood price to be paid.
John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers.
John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins.
A little girl dreams of horses.