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All the Pretty Horses

The Border Trilogy seriesbook 1 of 3Next:The Crossing(1994) →

All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Across the border Mexico beckons—beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With two companions, he sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

Audience
adultchildrens
Length
medium · 302 pages

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