All the Pretty Horses

Description

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. Along with The Crossing (1994), and Cities 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. (main source EN.wikipedia)

Subjects

Genres

• Fiction.

Series Statement

• The Border Trilogy

Other Editions

• All the Pretty HorsesVintage Books1993-01-01
• All the pretty horsesKnopf1992-01-01
• All the pretty horsesCurley Large Print1992-01-01
• All The Pretty Horses, Volume One, The Border TrilogyPaperbackVintage Books / Random House1993-01-01
• All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy)HardcoverPicador1993-02-12
• All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy)Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media1993-06-01