All the Pretty Horses
1992 • 322 pages

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“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

The first volume in the Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

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The Border Trilogy

The Border Trilogy is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1992 with contributions by Cormac McCarthy.

All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
Cities of the Plain

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The first of a trilogy, but it stands well on its own, and is by far my favorite. A border story, mostly in old Mexico.

December 9, 2008

I ain't afraid to die.
That's good. Helps you die. Doesn't help you to live.

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