All The Pretty Horses.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Publication: Alfred A Knopf, 1992, New York

First edition. Half Cloth and Boards. [302pp.] Volume I of the Border Trilogy. Sixteen-year old John Grady escapes from the heavy trials of life in west Texas over the border into Mexico on horseback. His friend Lacey travels with him. Along the way, they pick up a rogue named Blevins and arrive at a hacienda where they're hired to break horses. Grady falls in love with the owner's beautiful daughter ... a disaster that leads in succession to arrest and Mexican jail and murder in self-defense. Winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Basis for the Billy Bob Thornton film that starred Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz.

Inventory Number: 50507