Words Wednesday: Cormac McCarthy
Today’s Words Wednesday is a poignant quote by Cormac McCarthy.
This quote comes from All the Pretty Horses, winner of the U.S. National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. Published in 1992, All the Pretty Horses is the first installation of McCarthy’s Border Trilogy. The novel follows two teenage boys from Texas, John Grady Cole and Lacey Rawlins, who travel south into Mexico to become cowboys. Written in McCarthy’s distinct style of sparse yet sprawling, simple yet profound stream-of-consciousness prose, All the Pretty Horses is at once romantic, humorous, tragic and deeply philosophical.
Cormac McCarthy is renowned for other works including The Orchard Keeper, Blood Meridian and The Road.
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