This is Volume One of the "Border Trilogy".
'A uniquely brilliant book ...told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting. One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time' - Stephen Amidon, "Sunday Times".
John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
"All the Pretty Horses" is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival.
'A darkly shining work ...executed with consummate skill and much subtlety - the effect is magnificent' - John Banville, "Observer".
'An exhilarating, exceptional novel' - "Spectator".
'In a single stride it takes McCarthy to the forefront of contemporary American fiction. All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece' - "Financial Times".
作者簡介
戈馬克．麥卡錫Cormac McCarthy（1933.7.20-）
一九三三年於美國羅德島出生，原名查爾斯．麥卡錫（Charles McCarthy）。曾獲詹姆斯泰特布萊克紀念文學獎（英國歷史最悠久之文學獎）、美國國家書卷獎、美國國家書評人獎、普立茲文學獎、鵝毛筆獎等眾多獎 項，被譽為是海明威與福克納的唯一後繼者。
一九六五年於藍燈書屋出版第一本小說The Orchard Keeper（此書編輯正是與福克納長期合作的Albert Erskine），其後陸續出版Outer Dark、Child of God、Suttree等，皆獲好評。
一九八五年出版的《血色子午線》（Blood Meridian）為麥卡錫創作生涯的轉捩點。此書開啟了麥卡錫往後以美國西部為創作背景的一系列作品。一九九二年出版的「邊境三部曲（Border Trilogy）」首卷《所有漂亮的馬》（All the Pretty Horses），獲得大眾讀者的廣泛注意，將麥卡錫推向暢銷作家之林。生性低調的他，也在此時首度接受媒體專訪。二○○六年，《紐約時報》將「邊境三部 曲」列為美國近二十五年來最優秀的小說作品；大受矚目之新作《長路》獲詹姆斯泰特布萊克紀念文學獎、普立茲小說獎、美國鵝毛筆獎，並由數十家 國際媒體及歐 普拉讀書俱樂部選為好書。
二○○八年，由《險路》（No Country for Old Men）改編的電影《險路勿近》囊括奧斯卡四項大獎。
二○○九年，獲美國筆會頒發索爾貝婁文學終生成就獎。麥卡錫現與妻子Jennifer McCarthy及幼子John Francis McCarthy居於新墨西哥州聖塔菲。
Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten acclaimed novels, most recently The Road. Among his honors are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
