![]() Dirty Cop: The police captain who captures Cole, Rawlins and Blevins, kills Blevins in cold blood, and throws Cole and Rawlins to a prison full of dangerous inmates.Did Not Get the Girl: In the end, Alejandra decides she must keep her promise to her aunt to not see John Grady again. ![]() The novel was also adapted as a 2000 film, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. The novel not only brought McCarthy's hard-won critical acclaim and a wider audience after writing for almost 3 decades, but it also earned him two of the most prestigious literary awards, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1993. This idyllic and sometimes comic adventure leads in fact to tragic events, where dreams are paid for in blood.Ī sequel, The Crossing, was published in 1994. Unable to accept this, he sets off south to Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins and acquires a younger companion along the way to find work on the ranch. Set in 1949 Texas, it follows John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old boy who is cut off from his family's generation-long ranch life that he only dreamed of. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenthearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise."Īll the Pretty Horses is a 1992 Western novel by Cormac McCarthy and is the first entry in The Border Trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() "What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. ![]()
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