All the pretty horses / Cormac McCarthy.

By:

McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: McCarthy, Cormac, Border trilogy ; book 1.Publisher: New York, NY : Vintage International (Firm), 1993Copyright date: ©1992Edition: First Vintage International editionDescription: 301 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780679744399
0679744398
9781439508138
1439508135
9780785727835
0785727833
9780394574745
0394574745
9780329170226
0329170228

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Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

813/.54 22

Awards:

Mountains & Plains Book Award, 1993.
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Award for Western novel, 1993.

Summary: John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick-- a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins-- encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.

List(s) this item appears in: Literary westerns

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Fiction	Eltham LibraryPlus Fiction	Fiction	MacCART (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		I2239526

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"Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1992"--Title page verso.

"Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc."

John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick-- a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins-- encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.

940 Lexile.

Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.9 15.0 68567.

Reading Counts RC High School 6.4 21 Quiz: 13287 Guided reading level: NR.

Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.9 15.0 68567.

Reading Counts RC 9-12 6.4 21.0 13287.

Mountains & Plains Book Award, 1993.

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Award for Western novel, 1993.

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