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    A Study Guide for Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses
    A Study Guide for Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses
    A Study Guide for Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses
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    A Study Guide for Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses

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    A Study Guide for Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2015
    ISBN9781535821124
    A Study Guide for Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses

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      A Study Guide for Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses - Gale

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      All the Pretty Horses

      CORMAC McCARTHY

      1992

      INTRODUCTION

      Cormac McCarthy is considered one of the leading writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His novel All the Pretty Horses, published in 1992, was the work that secured that reputation. The novel was an instant best seller, popular with both critics and readers, and it was honored with a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Award. Beginning in 1949, the plot features sixteen-year-old John Grady Cole, a cowboy who travels with his best friend, Lacey Rawlins, from Texas to Mexico. Their travels lead them to murders, horse robberies, a forbidden and star-crossed love affair, and a stint in a Mexican prison, yet, for all of the masculine and action-packed adventure, All the Pretty Horses is a thoughtful and philosophical novel. Themes include the

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