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Cormac McCarthy is a peaceful, unassuming presence in American fiction today, but like the slow-moving, measured voices of many of his people, he speaks with an specialist and conviction that wants an audience. All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's sixth novel, is a cowboy odyssey for modern times. Occur the overdue 1940s, it features the travels and toils of an 16-year-old East Texan called John Grady Cole, caught in the agonizing purgatory between adolescence and adulthood. In the beginning of the novel, Cole's grandfather has just passed away, his parents have once and for all separated, and the family ranch, upon which he previously put so many boyish desires, has been sold. Rootless and increasingly restive, Cole leaves Tx, combined with his friend Lacey Rawlins, and commences a journey across the vaquero frontier into the badlands of northern Mexico. Regardless of its hard realities and spare revealing to, All the Pretty Horses is a lyrical and richly intimate story, chronicling - combined with the erosion of the frontier - the loss of an era.
