All the Pretty Horses

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All the Pretty Horses is a 1992 novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a young cowboy’s journey into Mexico and is renowned for its lyrical prose and exploration of loss, identity, and the fading American West.

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instanceOf novel
adaptationDirector Billy Bob Thornton
adaptationReleaseDate 2000
adaptationStarring Henry Thomas
Lucas Black
Matt Damon
Penélope Cruz
adaptedAs All the Pretty Horses self-linksurface differs
surface form: All the Pretty Horses (film)
author Cormac McCarthy
awarded National Book Award for Fiction
National Book Critics Circle Award
surface form: National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception widely acclaimed
followedBy Cities of the Plain
The Crossing (in publication order of Border Trilogy)
genre Western fiction
bildungsroman
romantic drama
hasISBN 0-679-74439-8
literaryMovement postmodern literature
mainCharacter Alejandra Rocha y Villareal
Jimmy Blevins
John Grady Cole
Lacey Rawlins
mediaType print
narrativeStyle lyrical prose
notableFor Spanish-English code-switching dialogue
sparse punctuation
originalLanguage English
pageCount 302
placeOfPublication New York City
positionInSeries first volume
precededBy The Crossing
surface form: The Crossing (in internal chronology of Border Trilogy events)
publicationDate 1992
publisher Alfred A. Knopf
series Border Trilogy
settingLocation Mexico
Texas
subjectMatter borderlands
cowboy culture
horsemanship
theme coming of age
fading American West
identity
loss
love
violence
timePeriod mid-20th century

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Cormac McCarthy notableWork All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy notableAwardWork All the Pretty Horses
Ted Tally notableWork All the Pretty Horses
this entity surface form: All the Pretty Horses (screenplay)
Sally Menke editedFilm All the Pretty Horses
All the Pretty Horses adaptedAs All the Pretty Horses self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: All the Pretty Horses (film)
The Crossing precededBy All the Pretty Horses
Cities of the Plain prequel All the Pretty Horses
Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. notableWork All the Pretty Horses
subject surface form: Cormac McCarthy
Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. awardReceivedForWork All the Pretty Horses
subject surface form: Cormac McCarthy
this entity surface form: National Book Award for Fiction: All the Pretty Horses
Lucas Black filmography All the Pretty Horses