ALL THE PRETTY HORSES
'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series
'All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece' - Financial Times
1949. At sixteen years-old, 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.
A grand love story, Cormac McCarthy's novel is about the passing of childhood, of 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.
ORMAC MCCARTHY
Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, Child of God and The Passenger. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country for Old Men - the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of 89.
Edad: adultos jóvenes
MCCARTHY CORMAC
Cormac McCarthy nació el 20 de julio de 1933 en Providence, Rhode Island, Estados Unidos, con el nombre de Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. En 1937 su familia se trasladó a Knoxville, Tennessee, donde cursó estudios en St. Mary's Parochial School y Knoxville Catholic High School. Asistió a la Universidad de Tennessee sin completar un grado y sirvió en la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos entre 1953 y 1957. Publicó doce novelas, dos obras de teatro, cinco guiones y tres relatos breves, entre ellos Suttree, Blood Meridian, The Border Trilogy, No Country for Old Men y The Road. Falleció el 13 de junio de 2023 en Santa Fe, Nuevo México.
