EPISODE · Aug 7, 2013 · 10H 3M
All the Pretty Horses Audiobook by Cormac McCarthy
from Discover Best Audiobooks in Fiction, Literary · host Cormac McCarthy
https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/79/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: All the Pretty Horses Subtitle: The Border Trilogy, Book One Author: Cormac McCarthy Narrator: Frank Muller Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins Language: English Release date: 08-07-13 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1295 votes Genres: Fiction, Literary Publisher's Summary: Cormac McCarthy is a quiet, unassuming presence in American fiction today, but like the slow, measured voices of many of his characters, he speaks with an authority and conviction that demands an audience. All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's sixth novel, is a cowboy odyssey for modern times. Set in the late 1940s, it features the travels and toils of a 16-year-old East Texan named John Grady Cole, caught in the agonizing purgatory between adolescence and adulthood. At the start of the novel, Cole's grandfather has just died, his parents have permanently separated, and the family ranch, upon which he had placed so many boyish hopes, has been sold. Rootless and increasingly restive, Cole leaves Texas, accompanied by his friend Lacey Rawlins, and begins a journey across the vaquero frontier into the badlands of northern Mexico. In spite of its hard realities and spare telling, All the Pretty Horses is a lyrical and richly romantic story, chronicling - along with the erosion of the frontier - the loss of an era. Critic Reviews: "This is a novel so exuberant in its prose, so offbeat in its setting and so mordant and profound in its deliberations that one searches in vain for comparisons in American literature." (Publishers Weekly)
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