All the Pretty Horses. Volume One of The Border Trilogy (Picador): v.1 - Brossura

McCarthy, Cormac

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330331698 ISBN 13: 9780330331692

Casa editrice: Picador, 2007

Riassunto

VOLUME ONE OF THE BORDER TRILOGY John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood. All The Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival. `A darkly shining work . . . executed with consummate skill and much subtlety - the effect is magnificent' John Banville, Observer `A uniquely brilliant book . . . told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting. One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time' Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

The novel that established McCarthy at the forefront of contemporary American writing

L'autore:

Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten acclaimed novels, most recently The Road. Among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0330331698
• ISBN 13: 9780330331692
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 302