ALL THE PRETTY HORSES

u003cpu003e VOLUME ONE OF THE BORDER TRILOGY u003c/pu003e u003cpu003e John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. 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. u003c/pu003e u003cpu003e u003ciu003eAll The Pretty Horsesu003c/iu003e is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival. u003c/pu003e u003cpu003e ‘A darkly shining work . . . executed with consummate skill and much subtlety – the effect is magnificent’ John Banville, u003ciu003e Observeru003c/iu003e u003c/pu003e u003cpu003e ‘A uniquely brilliant book . . . told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting. One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time’ Stephen Amidon, u003ciu003eSunday Times u003c/iu003e u003c/pu003e u003cpu003e u003c/pu003e u003cpu003e u003c/pu003e u003cpu003e u003c/pu003e