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.