All the Pretty Horses

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Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age.

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Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.

The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.

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A Super Modern Western Adventure!.......2007-09-22

Note: I made some Mormon reader angry over my reviews of books written by Mormons out to prove the Book of Mormon, and that person has been slamming my reviews. This review of "All the Pretty Horses" is pretty good. I didn't want to ruin the story by telling too much. Your "helpful" votes are appreciated.

This memorable novel caught me and wouldn't let go. Around 1948, two teenage boys from Texas ride their horses down into Mexico. From there, the adventure begins. For a while, they live at a cattle ranch where the one boy falls in love with the wealthy rancher's daughter.

Highly recommended.

McCarthy is a powerful writer, and his novel "Blood Meridian" is the most powerful novel I ever read (see my review where I compare his prose to that of Conrad).

Blood Meridian:

"That night they rode through a region electric and wild where strange shapes of soft blue fire ran over the metal of the hoses' trappings and the wagonwheels rolled in hoops of fire and little shapes of pale blue light came to perch in the ears of the horses and in the beards of the men. All night sheetlightning quaked and sourceless to the west beyond the midnight thunderheads, making a bluish day of the distant desert, the mountains on the sudden skyline stark and black and lived like a land of some other order out there whose true geology was not stone but fear. The thunder moved up from the southwest and lightning lit the desert all about them, blue and barren, great clanging reaches ordered out of the absolute night like some demon kingdom summoned up or changeling land that come the day would leave them neither trace nor smoke nor ruin more than any troubling dream."

Compare above lines to similar lines in "The Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad:

"We could have fancied ourselves the first of men taking possession of an accursed inheritance, to be subdued at the cost of profound anguish and of excessive toil. But suddenly, as we struggled round a bend, there would be a glimpse of rush walls, of peaked grass-roofs, a burst of yells, a whirl of black limbs, a mass of hands clapping, of feet stamping, of bodies swaying, , of eyes rolling, under the droop of heavy and motionless foliage. The steamer toiled along slowly on the edge of a black and incomprehensible frenzy. The prehistoric man was cursing us, praying to us, welcoming us--who could tell" we were cut off from the comprehension of our surroundings; we glided past like phantoms, wondering and secretly appalled, as sane men would be before an enthusiastic outbreak in a madhouse. We could not understand because we were too far and could not remember because we were travelling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign--and no memories."
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Cowboys!~.......2007-09-18

This book is short but really interesting. Anybody can read it quickly. The only confusing part is that the book has many quotes but it doesn't say who is saying it. This is why sometimes you have to think twice about who said this and that. The lovestory is not like any typical teenage lovestory- in one word it is DIFFERENT.

Part "High Plains Drifter" and Part "Romeo and Juliet.".......2007-09-10

Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode island and grew up in Tennessee, but now lives in Tesuque, New Mexico. He is viewed by many as one of the more unusual and most talented of the current American writers. For example, Harold Bloom has written a number of things about McCarthy.

Some describe Mccarthy as a loner. Coincidentally, that is what one might call the protagonist in the present novel: John Grady. The novel is set in the 1950s time period and Grady is a young man or mature boy caught between the horse and buggy days of the old west and the new west connected by modern highways. Grady has a fascination for horses and is a talented rider.

The story is about two men who ride their horses into Mexico and work as ranch hands in Mexico. It is part love story and part a tale of justice and adventure, i.e.: Grady meets a woman in Mexico. The protagonist is a sympathetic character and most readers will find it to be a compelling read.

Some might not like it for the prose. The prose is complicated by design. I thought the first thirty pages were sometimes a bit awful but effective as well, but then McCarthy lightens up a bit on his writing. He reminded me a bit of the opening of Farewell to Arms where Hemingway tries to set the mood through the use of prose: Hemingway uses a narrative of the natural surroundings. McCarthy uses expressions such as "the sun sat blood red and elliptic," and these seem out of place when compared to the spartan dialogue of a father and son talking over a breakfast of eggs and coffee.

Also, McCarthy uses what is called polysyndeton, or the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted. It is a stylistic scheme used to slow down the tempo. As pointed out by others, polysyndeton is used extensively in the King James Version of the Bible. For example:

"And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark." Genesis 7:22-24

One of the best parts in the book - and exceptional writing by the way - is where he describes a dream in the middle of the book about horses running free on a plain and he does so in 18 continuous lines with no punctuation.

So, this is based on some universal themes, set in Texas and Mexico, and has some interesting and complicated prose. Once you get passed page 30 to 50, it is a novel that is hard to put down. I read most of the novel in an evening.

Highly recommended page turner: 5 stars.

A wonderful reading experience.......2007-09-09

This was one of the best reading experiences Ive ever had. What was most important to me was how true to the how people of this lifestyle actually are. I grew up in this type of atmosphere and its a big part of who I am even though it no longer defines me on a daily basis. Working with horses is a lifestyle. It what you live and breathe. McCarthy captures that. It had such an effect on me and took me back to a life I miss so much. Enjoy this book.

All the Pretty Horses.......2007-08-06

I was disappointed in the style of this book. I had just read "Water for Elephants" and was blown away. The reviews I read lead me to this author and the above book. The story line is good however he is slow to develop it. I appreciate discriptive text however a paragraph (or more) it seems to descibbe a dry river bed is a bit much especially when there is one on every page. Alas the last 1/3 of the book will go unread. And I will search for the next W.F.E.

The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library)

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Adventure!
One of the best
Perfect presentation of a perfect story
A five-star book plus a five-star book plus a five-star book equals a fifteen-star book
apologia pro sua vita

The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library)
Cormac Mccarthy
Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
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ASIN: 0375407936
Release Date: 1999-09-28

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Available together in one volume for the first time, the three novels of Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling Border Trilogy constitute a genuine American epic.

Beginning with All the Pretty Horses and continuing through The Crossing and Cities of the Plain, McCarthy chronicles the lives of two young men coming of age in the Southwest and Mexico, poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Hauntingly beautiful, filled with sorrow and humor, The Border Trilogy is a masterful elegy for the American frontier.

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Adventure!.......2007-01-04

I love All the Pretty Horses and have read it three times. The other stories aren't quite as good as the first in the trilogy but the package is a good value.

One of the best.......2007-01-04

I love a book that takes more than a day to read. I'm still thinking about the characters months after I have read these book(s) Reading a good book twice is something I rarely do, planning a rereading of this one soon.

Perfect presentation of a perfect story.......2006-05-20

Just one example of the prose which has prompted me to read this three times:

PAGE 141 OF "ALL THE PRETTY HORSES" (punctuation is as the author intended)

"...They'd ride at night up along the western mesa two hours from the ranch and sometimes he'd build a fire and they could see the gaslights at the hacienda gates far below them floating in a pool of black and sometimes the lights seemed to move as if the world down there turned on some other center and they saw stars fall to earth by the hundreds and she told him stories of her father's family and of Mexico. Going back they'd walk the horses into the lake and the horses would stand and drink with the water at their chests and the stars in the lake bobbed and tilted where they drank and if it rained in the mountains the air would be close and the night more warm and one night he left her and rode down along the edge of the lake through the sedge and willow and slid from the horses back and pulled off his boots and his clothes and walked out into the lake where the moon slid away before him and ducks gabbled out there in the dark. The water was black and warm and he turned in the lake and spread his arms in the water and the water was so dark and so silky and he watched across the still black surface to where she stood on the shore with the horse and he watched where she stepped from her pooled clothing so pale, so pale, like a chrysalis emerging, and walked into the water.

She paused midway to look back. Standing there trembling in the water and not from the cold for there was none. Do not speak to her. Do not call. When she reached him he held out his hand amd she took it. She was so pale in the lake she seemed to be burning. Like foxfire in a darkened wood. That burned cold. Like the moon that burned cold. Her black hair floating on the water about her, falling and floating on the water. She put her other arm about his shoulder and looked toward the moon in the west do not speak to her do not call and then she turned her face up to him. Sweeter for the larceny of time and flesh, sweeter for the betrayal. Nesting cranes that stood singlefooted among the cane on the south shore had pulled their slender beaks from their wingpits to watch. Me quieres? she said. Yes, he said. He said her name. God yes, he said..."

A five-star book plus a five-star book plus a five-star book equals a fifteen-star book.......2006-04-04

Here are three amazing books, and one amazing saga, all together in one brimming volume you can throw into a backpack.

The first novel, "All the Pretty Horses" is one of the most beautifully told stories I've ever read. Not only is the writing here packed with imagery, and the story one of McCarthy's most accessible, but the textures of the words used to describe the images are as lush and as enfolding as anything F. Scott Fitzgerald ever wrote--even when McCarthy's describing the driest of desert plains, the most desolate of ruins, or the emptiest of lives.
The book tells the story of two young friends who leave home in 1948 Texas to ride south into northern Mexico in search of SOMETHING. What happens along the way is tragic and amusing, lovely and gripping, real and amazing. McCarthy seems to paint every scene perfectly, yet he does so using the fewest amount of words possible, and the simplest of details.
"The gray and malignant dawn." "Stars falling down the long black slope of the firmament." "The shelving clouds." "Their windtattered fire." "Narrow spires of smoke standing vertically into the windless dawn so still the village seemed to hang by threads from the darkness."
Long sentences shroud the reader in the events of every scene, and the author's trademark quote-sign-less dialogue gives every conversation a very biblical feel.

The trilogy's second book, "The Crossing" has only thematic and geographical elements in common with the first. The story deals with a completely different character, Billy Parham, a son in a late-1930s New Mexican ranching family. Billy traps a wolf that has been killing his father's cattle but realizes he morally can't kill it and has to return it to its home in the mountains of old Mexico. Billy crosses the border into Mexico, and as he does he crosses from real life into a world of dreams, where everyone moves as if the air was liquid, where every ruin has an irretrievable story, where soot and heat and danger hang in the air, and where nothing ever goes as planned.
The story is not as streamlined or as focused as its thematic predecessor, "All the Pretty Horses," but that's not necessarily a shortcoming. The book sprawls out like a wide hot desert--curling north and south, east and west, across the present and into the past. The writing is as good as any writing I've ever read ever, and certain metaphors and feelings will stay with you for years. For example: the coals of a campfire seeming like an exposed piece of the core of the earth.

The trilogy's concluding part is "Cities of the Plain." The book has some shortcomings, but it's still one amazing piece of work. YOU try writing something this good.
In this book, John Grady Cole--the genius horsetrainer of "All the Pretty Horses"--and Billy Parham--the kindhearted nomad of "The Crossing"--come together as ranch hands on a New Mexico estancia. Here, you can see why this actually is a trilogy. Both characters are older than they were in the previous books--Billy much older--but both are kindred spirits whose stories connect with and affect each another.
"Cities of the Plain" tends more heavily toward the lengthy philosophical monologues that appear only occasionally in the trilogy's earlier volumes, and the whole story at moments goes a little bit long if you've just read the two previous books right before.
However, the writing is gorgeous, and haunting. In one passage, a dead calf's "ribcage lay with curved tines upturned on the gravel plain like some carnivorous plant brooding in the barren dawn." Yeah. Yeah!
And the ending--the ending is amazing. It might not be quite what you expect or ask for, but it is thrilling in its perfectness, in its completess, in how true it feels. It gave me chills of ecstasy. It left me holding the book like a priceless religious relic, re-reading its back cover, flipping back through it to parts I had marked, reluctant and unwilling to let go of these characters or their world.

Reading these collected books is like having a vision: I feel as if I should tell the world about it, but at the same time it seems so sacred and personal that maybe I should just keep it to myself and try to figure out why it came to me, into my life, into my head. These are books that deserve readers. Pick this volume up, and let it seep into your skin, let it open you to other worlds and people and ideas, and let it change you. Let it open your eyes to the world, and to the West, and to the goodness and the hope and the sadness that haunts the lives of all of us.
This is a saga made up of all those ineffable things that most of us just can't put into words. But here, somehow, Cormac McCarthy has managed to do just that. Here is the intangible, but tangible. Here is the unnameable, but named. Here are the thoughts you could never express, expressed. Here is a book worth reading, a book that will change you--you, and the way you see the world.

apologia pro sua vita.......2006-03-23

My names Billy Parham and basically I get everyone killed one way or another for no particular reason. Mostly wrong and never did learn a thing. Is that about right cowboy?
Yeah you covered it nicely.
Boyd?
Like John Grady just said. You nailed it.

The Cormac McCarthy Value Collection: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain

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Brad Pitt a Poor Reader
excellent abridged version of McCarthy's work

The Cormac McCarthy Value Collection: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain
Cormac Mccarthy
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ASIN: 073932067X
Release Date: 2005-08-23

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ALL THE PRETTY HORSES
The first volume of the Border Trilogy–tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Across the border Mexico beckons–beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With two companions, he sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

THE CROSSING
In the late 1930’s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing, he beings an arduous and often dreamlike journey into a country where men meet like ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat-lightening–a world where there is no order "save that which death has put there."

CITIES OF THE PLAIN
It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico, not far from the proving grounds of Alamogordo and the cities of El Paso and Juarez. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. They value that life all the more because they know it is about to change forever.

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Brad Pitt a Poor Reader.......2006-09-23

Buy the other, the All The Pretty Horses alone, with reader Muller (sp?) Frank. Brad Pitt does a very poor job, and I was amazed how poor. He hardly seems like a trained actor. He badly mispronounces Spanish (pronounces 'jefe' as 'jeffy')and his reading is like something a grade-school child would produce. He carries the question tone over to the 'he said' in interrogative sentences and does not change voice tone from one speaker to another. He sounds like a slacker who has been forced to read a high-school composition. This guy is an actor?

And the abridgement ruins the stories in all three novels.

Now I have to go back and buy the other because I love ATPH very much and want to hear it read by someone who has had voice training and a good voice.

excellent abridged version of McCarthy's work.......2005-01-16

Cormac McCarthy is undoubtedly one of the best American writers alive today. This is precisely why I purchased one of his works for my first venture into the "books on tape" world. I feared that hearing his works read to me my a Hollywood actor would diminish its impact, but I am happy to report that Brad Pitt does a good job of keeping the spirit and humor of his writing up to par. There are, however, times when he seems bored with the task as his voice takes on a particularly lullaby-like quality, so be sure to keep a cup of coffee handy if listening while driving!

I have read all of these novels before so I was familiar with the stories. The abridgement did cut out some of my favorite passages (especially in the Crossing) where McCarthy embarks on a style parade worthy of Fitzgerald's or Faulkner's attention.

My wife and I listened to the stories while traveling through the Southwest, and it was a delight to experience the landscape through the eyes of the stories. If you are planning a cross country drive or a long drive through the New Mexico-Arizona-West Texas area, I cannot recommend enough these books on tape as travel companions!

All The Pretty Horses, Volume One, The Border Trilogy

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Part "High Plains Drifter" and Part "Romeo and Juliete."
All the Pretty Horses
Waste your time on something else

All The Pretty Horses, Volume One, The Border Trilogy
Cormac Mccarthy
Manufacturer: Vintage Books / Random House
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ASIN: 0330325329

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Part "High Plains Drifter" and Part "Romeo and Juliete.".......2007-09-10

All the Pretty Horses.......2007-08-07

The best fiction I've read this year. The dialouge, the scenery, and McCarthy's confidence and skill with language make this book hard to match and a work to be read, read again, then studied.

If this one doesn't leave you in awe, consider more education.

Waste your time on something else.......2007-07-14

I picked this book from Amazon mainly because it won the National Book Award. As no one had reviewed it yet, I couldn't see what others thought about it. But apparently there are many fans of McCarthy's work as someone has even written a book about these books.

I could get past McCarthy's lack of important syntax. It must be the rebel in him. I don't really care. I can certainly read and understand a sentence that has no quotation marks and a lack of proper capitalization. After all, that's the way we speak and we understand each other well enough. That's just what makes it such a small rebellion on McCarthy's part. Still, in a book I expect these things so the pretentions of McCarthy's writing bothered me.

I could forgive these minor annoyances on EVERY page if the story was something better than simply boring. If it taught me something; if it made me think, laugh, feel, or examine my ideals; if I didn't resent McCarthy's small-minded rebellion against rules of grammar that are generally followed by every great and small writer in the literary universe and the utter snobbishness of him, I wouldn't have regretted spending the ten bucks for this ode to self-indulgent egotism.

Like many others have written about other books, if I could have given this book less than one star I would have.

Here's a list of things that are a better waste of time:
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4. I can't think of anything.

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A beautiful way to end the day...
All the Pretty Little horses
All the Pretty Little Horses

All the Pretty Little Horses

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ASIN: 0395930979

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Luminous pastel illustrations washed with color accompany the familiar words of this song from the American South. With its images of many-colored horses, cake, and a lost lamb that finds its mother, this lullaby artfully bridges the gap between sleep and waking. The pictures, too, take the viewer back and forth between the comfortable reality of the cradle on the porch and the vivid landscape of a child's dream. This striking picture-book rendition offers a new vision of a favorite lullaby and includes a simple arrangement of the tune.

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A beautiful way to end the day..........2003-11-25

Rich colors and beautifully rounded shapes capture a warmth and expressiveness that both parent and child will enjoy. The illustrations flow with the music for a delightful combination of song and imagery.

All the Pretty Little horses.......2002-10-31

My 23 Months old daughter absolutely loves this book.
Very bright and clear pictures of the baby, a mother , a sheep and other familiar objects.
It is very soothing reading or singing before bedtime.
Very few words on each page which makes it easy for toddlers to concentrate, has music to the lullaby at the end of the book.
I would highly recommend it as an addition to a bedtime routine.

All the Pretty Little Horses.......1999-12-17

As a Kodaly music teacher I was looking for songs in book form to sing to my young groups of children. I chose this book from the Amazon Catalogue without having seen it and was delighted when it arrived. The lullaby is a beautiful song and the music is printed at the back of the book in piano score with the words. The pictures have been beautifully done with the colours really lending themselves to the peaceful, rather whimsical feel of the song. It is a winner not only with the young children but their parents as well. Very classy.

Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)

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excellent insight

Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
Stephen Tatum
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This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from `The Remains of the Day' to `White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.

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excellent insight.......2006-05-14

though need to get out the dictionary sometimes:
mythopoetic gestures, profundity, epitome....

this is really excellent; looking forward to rereading the 20 cent copy of all the preety horses i just ordered with my girlfriend and this book's insights into this great writer (my favorite)

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All the Pretty Horses (Cliffs Notes)
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ASIN: 0764585517

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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.

Run away with John and Lacey in CliffsNotes on All the Pretty Horses. McCarthy’s adventure novel brings you along on a journey through Texas and into Mexico. Explore the loss of innocence, mankind’s relationship to nature, and more.

With help from this study guide, you won’t be confused by the Spanish terminology or unnamed characters. Clear explanations and summaries will keep you on track with the plot from beginning to end. Other features that help you study include

A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
Information on the life and background of Cormac McCarthy
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Glossary of unfamiliar terms
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Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

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All the Pretty Horses is the first novel in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy. The young John Grady Cole and his two companions journey from Texas through Mexico as orphans of sorts, and through their struggles for their horses, with the law, and with a landowning Mexican family, they travel toward maturity. As the first in a series, it begins to reveal John Grady Cole's character and presents the loss of the West, for Cole ultimately loses love and takes his place as a lone figure, on a horse, on the American landscape. The book was adapted for the screen in 2000.

All the Pretty Little Horses: A Traditional Lullaby

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Great lullaby

All the Pretty Little Horses: A Traditional Lullaby

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Great lullaby.......2007-05-30

My grand daughter loves all the colors in this book, plus the horses. Since this is one of the songs I sing regulary to her its nice to know the orgin facts & have pictures to go with the words.

All the Pretty Horses (Blue Ribbon Books)

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One of the best horse books
My dreams held in a book
Memorial

All the Pretty Horses (Blue Ribbon Books)
Susan Jeffers
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ASIN: 0590417096

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One of the best horse books.......2004-07-04

Even before horses had captured me in their enthralling spell, I loved this book. Now I'm 12, and I still love it. Susan Jeffer's wonderful art allows the little girl and the various horses, to be tranformed into my pony and I, dancing across flowers...

My dreams held in a book.......2004-04-30

My sister who is 12 years older than me used to read this book to me all the time even times when she did not want to. This book is for every little girl who dreamed of owning a horse or pony. I recently found an original issue from 1974 in mint condition and it still makes me smile just like a little girl. Thanks for reading my review.

Memorial.......2004-04-14

This book is beautiful, every little girl should have this book read to them. My parents used read this book to me often before I went to sleep. My dreams were peaceful safe. I have wonderful memories of this book!

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All The Pretty Horses

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