![]() ![]() ![]() In spite of its hard realities and spare telling, All the Pretty Horses is a lyrical and richly romantic story, chronicling - along with the erosion of the frontier - the loss of an era.Ĭormac McCarthy's prose is like black coffee - you can appreciate when it's well-made, but it doesn't always go down smoothly and you might wish there was something to sweeten it. ![]() Rootless and increasingly restive, Cole leaves Texas, accompanied by his friend Lacey Rawlins, and begins a journey across the vaquero frontier into the badlands of northern Mexico. Set in the late 1940s, it features the travels and toils of a 16-year-old East Texan named John Grady Cole, caught in the agonizing purgatory between adolescence and adulthood.Īt the start of the novel, Cole's grandfather has just died, his parents have permanently separated, and the family ranch, upon which he had placed so many boyish hopes, has been sold. All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's sixth novel, is a cowboy odyssey for modern times. Cormac McCarthy is a quiet, unassuming presence in American fiction today, but like the slow, measured voices of many of his characters, he speaks with an authority and conviction that demands an audience. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And as Macy falls for Sebastian, she realizes that, while revealing her secret could ruin her seemingly perfect family, keeping silent might just destroy her. ![]() The boy is Sebastian Ruiz, a recovering addict who recognizes that Macy is hardened by dark secrets. But a conversation with a boy at a party one night shakes Macy out of the carefully maintained complacency that has defined her life so far. Her family's well-off, she's dating the cute boy next door, she has plenty of friends, and although she long ago wrote her mother off as a superficial gym rat, she's thankful to have allies in her loving, laid-back dad and her younger brother. On the outside, she's got it pretty good. Seventeen-year-old Macy Lyons has been through something no one should ever have to experience. Produktbeschreibung One conversation is all it takes to break a world wide open. ![]() |