![]() ![]() There are no quotation marks in dialog try as you might, you won’t find an apostrophe. Much of the writing in All the Pretty Horses would make a high school English teacher blanch. Ever present are the horses, the mainstay of John Grady’s life. I found his vivid descriptions of the Mexican countryside and its people lyrical. Their former association with Jimmy Blevens creates repercussions and they are suddenly in a situation with little hope.Īuthor Cormac McCarthy’s writing style kept me captivated throughout. He and the rancher’s daughter, Alejandra, fall in love.Ī tangled web ensues, and trouble for John Grady and Lacey follows. John Grady speaks fluent Spanish because of Spanish-speaking help on the family ranch. John Grady and Lacey eventually make their way to a large ranch in Mexico where they are hired. The three ride together for awhile, but along the way Jimmy disappears. Along the way, they meet up with Jimmy Blevens, 13, a wild, strange boy who rides an obviously valuable horse. ![]() He and his best friend Lacey Rawlins, 17, begin a journey on horseback to Mexico. ![]() His parents are separated, his father is ill, and it is evident that John Grady, 16, is now on his own. John Grady Cole’s grandfather has just died and the family’s east Texas ranch is for sale. Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, a novel set in the late 1940s, kept me spellbound from beginning to end. ![]()
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