![]() ![]() This edition is part of the Picador Collection, a new list of the best in contemporary literature published in Picador's 50th Anniversary year. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival. The first volume in McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy, All The Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a vanished American age. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. ![]() John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. ![]()
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