Author: Cormac McCarthy
Translator: Shi-hyun Kim
Publisher: Minumsa
416 pages | 210*140mm
SERIES:
- The Border Trilogy, Book 1 - All the Pretty Horses
- The Border Trilogy, Book 2 - The Crossing
- The Border Trilogy, Book 3 - Cities of the Plain
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About This Book
This is a novel so exuberant in its prose, so offbeat in its setting and
so mordant and profound in its deliberations that one searches in vain
for comparisons in American literature. None of McCarthy's previous
works, not even the award-winning The Orchard Keeper (1965) or the
much-admired Blood Meridian (1985), quite prepares the reader for the
singular achievement of this first installment in the projected Border
Trilogy. John Grady Cole is a 16-year-old boy who leaves his Texas home
when his grandfather dies. With his parents already split up and his
mother working in theater out of town, there is no longer reason for him
to stay. He and his friend Lacey Rawlins ride their horses south into
Mexico; they are joined by another boy, the mysterious Jimmy Blevins, a
14-year-old sharpshooter. Although the year is 1948, the landscape--at
some moments parched and unforgiving, at others verdant and gentled by
rain--seems out of time, somewhere before history or after it. These
likable boys affect the cowboy's taciturnity--they roll cigarettes and
say what they mean--and yet amongst themselves are given to terse, comic
exchanges about life and death. In McCarthy's unblinking imagination the
boys suffer truly harrowing encounters with corrupt Mexican officials,
enigmatic bandits and a desert weather that roils like an angry god.
Though some readers may grow impatient with the wild prairie rhythms of
McCarthy's language, others will find his voice completely transporting.
In what is perhaps the book's most spectacular feat, horses and men are
joined in a philosophical union made manifest in the muscular pulse of
the prose and the brute dignity of the characters. "What he loved in
horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood
that ran them," the narrator says of John Grady. As a bonus, Grady
endures a tragic love affair with the daughter of a rich Spanish
Hacendado , a romance, one hopes, to be resumed later in the trilogy.
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