All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy

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Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0679744398
Publisher: Vintage

Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in 1933 and spent most of his childhood near Knoxville, Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Air Force and later studied at the University of Tennessee.

McCarthy's fiction parallels his movement from the Southeast to the West--the first four novels being set in Tennessee, the last three in the Southwest and Mexico. The Orchard Keeper (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed by Outer Dark (1968), Child of God (1973), Suttree (1979), Blood Meridian (1985), All the Pretty Horses (1992), and The Crossing (1994). The last two books are part of McCarthy's Border Trilogy.

All the Pretty Horses won the National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. McCarthy is also the recipient of a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation, among other grants.

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