All The Pretty Horses

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All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller and it won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is also the first of McCarthy's "Border Trilogy".

The book was adapted as a 2000 film with the same name, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.


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