All the Pretty Horses

John Grady Cole, sixteen at the outset of this novel, finds himself cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself: that of a Texas rancher.  With two companions, Cole sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.  All the Pretty Horses is the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, national bestsellers and winners of the National Book Award for Fiction.