All The Pretty Horses

The first volume of A Border Trilogy (which will be published in successive years), All the Pretty Horses is a grand lov... (more)

The first volume of A Border Trilogy (which will be published in successive years), All the Pretty Horses is a grand love story, an education in responsibility, Esquire. (less)

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John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal La... (more)

John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. (less)