All the Pretty Horses (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Cormac McCarthy
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1949
- Setting: Northern Mexico and Southwest Texas
- Principal Characters: John Grady Coly, Lacey Rawlins, Jimmy Blevins, Alejandra Rocha y Villareal
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, 1940’s, Antiheroes, West, U.S., Lynching, Mexico or Mexicans, Westerns, Lightning, Boys, Texas, Horses
- Locales: Mexico, Texas
Cormac McCarthy’s novels are about wanderers, boys and men cut adrift from moorings, whether geographical, emotional, or moral. Black destiny hovers. And McCarthy serves it up in a prose style unashamed of being, now and again, purple. A persuasion of the depths around and in the characters requires a proper rhetorical ballast. Sometimes it sounds Faulknerian, sentences with no ending, swirling contextually and rhythmically. Sometimes it is Hemingway, pronouns repeated, conjunctions holding off periods. The matter borne by this artfulness is darkness, curse, and the simultaneous...
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