6/19/2023 0 Comments Novel all the pretty horses![]() ![]() So, like a line of superfluous men in novels before him-I owe to a student this application of that term from Russian fiction-Cole lights out for the territory, riding to Mexico with his best friend, Lacey Rawlins, and a younger boy named Blevins they pick up along the way.Īt first-in the second of the novel’s four divisions-they find in Mexico a promising terra nullius wherein to act out their obviously movie- and pulp-derived cowboy dreams. ![]() It is 1949 in West Texas, and the Western dream is dying, not only because of all the oilmen buying up the land: Cole’s ranch, which has been in the family since the 1870s, is about to be sold due to the death of his maternal grandfather, the dissolution of his parents’ marriage, the mortal illness of his veteran father, and his urbane actress mother’s dissatisfaction with country living.Ī preternaturally gifted horseman, Cole faces the prospect of a world that has no use for the only man he knows how to become. McCarthy’s bestselling 1992 novel is a romantic latter-day Western about a 16-year-old boy named John Grady Cole. ![]() All the Pretty Horses is apparently to Cormac McCarthy’s corpus what The Crying of Lot 49 is to Thomas Pynchon’s or The Ghost Writer to Philip Roth’s: it is the appealing vestibule to an oeuvre of appalling heights and depths, a prolegomenon to any future metaphysics. ![]()
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