All the Pretty Horses

Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. 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. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age.

• The Crossing
• Cities of the Plain: A Novel (Border Trilogy, Vol. 3)
• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Modern Library (Hardcover))
• No Country for Old Men
• The Road
• Cities of the Plain: Border Trilogy (3)
• Suttree
• Child of God
• No Country for Old Men
• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West