All the Pretty Horses
About this book
*All the Pretty Horses* is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller, and it won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Along with *The Crossing* (1994), and C*ities of the Plain* (1998), it constitues McCarthy's "Border Trilogy", an elegy for the American Frontier, written in an unconventional format which omits traditional Western punctuation (such as quotation marks) and makes use of polysyndetic syntax in a manner similar to that of Ernest Hemingway. The book was adapted as a 2000 eponymous film, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. (Main source: Wikipedia)
Reader Profile
4.4/5 · 696 readers · 301 pages · ≈ 5 h 34 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read All the Pretty Horses?
About ≈ 5 h 34 m — 301 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is All the Pretty Horses?
301 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is All the Pretty Horses?
It sits on the Westerns, Travel, Fiction shelves.
Has All the Pretty Horses been made into a movie or TV show?
Yes — screen adaptations include All the Pretty Horses (2001), All the Pretty Horses (2000).
Is All the Pretty Horses in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Where does All the Pretty Horses take place?
It is set in Mexican-American Border Region, Texas, Mexico during 20th century, 1949.
Who wrote All the Pretty Horses?
Cormac McCarthy.