All the Pretty Horses
First published 1992
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*All the Pretty Horses* is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller, and it won both the U. S.
National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Along with *The Crossing* (1994), and C*ities of the Plain* (1998), it constitues McCarthy's "Border Trilogy", an elegy for the American Frontier, written in an unconventional format which omits traditional Western punctuation (such as quotation marks) and makes use of polysyndetic syntax in a manner similar to that of
Ernest Hemingway.
The book was adapted as a 2000 eponymous film, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.
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Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- First published
- 1992
- Edition
- All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy)
- Publisher
- Picador
- Language
- ENG
- ISBN-13
- 9780330325318