All the Pretty Horses (Signed First Printing)

McCarthy, Cormac

ISBN 10: 0394574745 / ISBN 13: 9780394574745

Editore: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992

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SIGNED by author CORMAC McCARTHY in black ink on half-title page. A rare signed first printing of "All the Pretty Horses", without inscription. The original first edition, Knopf 1992, first printing. Condition: fine/near fine/fine. Black hardboards with black cloth spine; gold printing; corners square; spine bottom lightly tucked. Text block clean, tight, square, unmarked, appears to be unread; has tiny dark speck on top edge (smaller than a flyspeck) that does not respond to light eraser, so is now part of the book. Pristine glossy original pictorial dust jacket with price on the flap, correct ISBN on back cover. Protected in clear archival Brodart wrapper (removable.) More pictures on request. Packaged with care and shipped in a box to arrive in best condition. Choose free shipping for free priority mail. "The romanticism of 'All the Pretty Horses' contrasting with the bleakness of 'Blood Meridian', McCarthy's earlier work, brought the writer much public attention. A bestseller, it won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is also the first of McCarthy's Border Trilogy, all of which are 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 film starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz and directed by Billy Bob Thornton." (from wikipedia). Codice articolo 221030-1

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Titolo: All the Pretty Horses (Signed First Printing)

Casa editrice: Alfred A. Knopf

Data di pubblicazione: 1992

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Fine

Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine

autografato: Signed by Author(s)

Edizione: 1st Edition

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Riassunto:

Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure. 25,000 first printing.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in 1933 and spent most of his childhood near Knoxville, Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Air Force and later studied at the University of Tennessee. In 1976 he moved to El Paso, Texas, where he lives today. McCarthy's fiction parallels his movement from the Southeast to the West--the first four novels being set in Tennessee, the last three in the Southwest and Mexico. The Orchard Keeper (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed by Outer Dark (1968), Child of God (1973), Suttree (1979), Blood Meridian (1985), and All the Pretty Horses, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award for fiction in 1992.


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