All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The story of John Grady Cole, a sixteen-year-old Texas rancher who finds himself at the end of a long line of ranchers and cut off from the only life he has ever envisioned for himself, is told in the film All the Pretty Horses. He embarks on a sometimes dreamy, sometimes humorous journey to Mexico with two friends to a country where aspirations are bought with blood.
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
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The 16-year-old John Grady Cole believes his alternatives at home are limited. His mother, an ambitious actress who is still young at 36 and the owner of the family ranch that has been in the family since 1876, sells it and moves to California with her newest beau. His parents are divorcing. His father is still working on the ranch, which is not his own and does not support itself. So, starting a little north of San Antonio, he and his cousin, 17-year-old Lacey Rawlins, mounted horses and rode off for Mexico.
As one of the Mexican characters in the novel notes, it is not the typical migration route to seek one’s fortune: they are travelling in the opposite direction from most people who cross the Rio Grande, which back then had enough water in it for the horses to have to swim.
McCarthy absolutely won me over with this captivating story about the borderland area between Texas and Mexico – and the hard lives faced by the people who dwell in this frequently dreary, forbidding, yet undeniably beautiful landscape. To say that McCarthy truly takes you to the time and location described in his writing is not an exaggeration.
