![]() ![]() He uses a style known as polysyndeton ( ). I had a real issue with the prose McCarthy uses in All the Pretty Horses. I know this is a technique used by authors but I’ve never came across it before. McCarthy doesn’t use speech marks in his dialogue. ![]() I felt the Mexican sun on my back and sweat ran down my face. I was completely submerged in the world he created. I think his descriptions were very vivid. ![]() It fits McCarthy’s novel quite well but is still quite obscure. I think All the Pretty Horses is a great title. This is the second proper ‘literary’ novel I’ve read and neither impressed me. All the Pretty Horses could easily have been written by a different author. I had high expectations because I thought The Road was great. McCarthy just didn’t ‘do’ it for me with this one. I was very disappointed overall with All the Pretty Horses. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid in blood. It tells the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself the last bewildered survivor of generations of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he ever imagined. ‘All the Pretty Horses’, the first novel of the Border Trilogy, published in 1992, was an international bestseller, winning both the National Book Award and the National Critics Circle Award. ![]()
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