All the Pretty Horses

occurrences in All the Pretty Horses are, strictly speaking, plausible and its human voices, in particular, are nothing if not realistic, the book also contains a strong mythic component. How, and where, does McCarthy introduce this? What specific myths and fairy tales does the book suggest

Cormac McCarthy is the author of eleven novels. Among his honors are the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Books by Cormac McCarthy
    The Road
The Sunset Limited ( a novel in dramatic form )
No Country for Old Men
Cities of the Plain
The Crossing
All the Pretty Horses
The Stonemason ( a play )
The Gardener’s Son ( a screenplay )
Blood Meridian
Suttree
Child of God
Outer Dark
The Orchard Keeper

BOOKS BY C ORMAC M C C ARTHY

    “McCarthy puts most other American writers to shame.” —The New York Times Book Review

    THE ORCHARD KEEPER

    Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee between the two world wars, this novel tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy’s father. Together with Rattner’s Uncle Ather, they enact a drama that seems born of the land itself.

    Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72872-6 (trade)
978-0-307-76250-4 (eBook)

    OUTER DARK

    Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set in an unspecified place in Appalachia around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother’s child, a boy, whom he leaves in the woods and tells her the baby died of natural causes. Discovering her brother’s lie, she sets forth alone to find her son.

    Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72873-3 (trade)
978-0-307-76249-8 (eBook)

    CHILD OF GOD

    Child of God is a taut, chilling novel that plumbs the depths of human degradation. Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man who haunts the hill country of East Tennessee—is released from jail and allowed to roam at will, preying on the population with his strange lusts.

    Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72874-0 (trade)
978-0-307-76248-1 (eBook)

    SUTTREE

    This is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege to live in a houseboat on the Tennessee River. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community—a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters—he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.

    Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-73632-5 (trade)
978-0-307-76247-4 (eBook)

    THE STONEMASON

    The setting is Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s. The Telfairs are stonemasons and have been for generations. Ben Telfair has given up his education to apprentice himself to his grandfather, Papaw. Out of the love that binds these two men and the gulf that separates them from the Telfairs who have forsaken—or dishonored—the family trade, McCarthy has crafted a drama that bears all the hallmarks of his great fiction.

    Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-76280-5

    BLOOD MERIDIAN

    This is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expansion. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

    Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-72875-7 (trade)
978-0-307-76252-8 (eBook)

    ALL THE PRETTY HORSES

    All the Pretty Horses tells 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.

    Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-74439-9 (trade)
978-0-307-48130-6 (eBook)

    THE CROSSING

    In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch. Instead of killing it, he takes it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing, he begins an arduous and dreamlike journey into a country where men meet like ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat-lightning.

    Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-76084-9 (trade)
978-0-307-76246-7 (eBook)

    CITIES OF THE PLAIN

    It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told