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He received a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1992 novel, All the Pretty Horses. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, and his 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He has also written plays and screenplays. He has written ten novels, ranging from the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres. Currently-lives in Tesuque, New Mexico (Santa Fe area)Ĭormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy) is an American novelist and playwright.Memorial Prize UK, 2006 Pulitzer Prize, 2007 for The Road.

National Book Critics Circle Award, 1992 James Tait Black MacArthur Fellowship, 1981 National Book Award, 1992 Of Arts and Letters, 1965 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1969 Prize, 1965 Traveling Fellowship from American Academy

Awards- Ingram-Merrill Aware, 19 Faulkner.

Education-University of Tennessee, US Air Force.

All the Pretty Horses is truly a masterpiece. Within months, one of the boys is dead, and the other two aged beyond their years.Ī story about childhood passing, innocence and an American age, here is a grand story and an education in responsibility, revenge, and survival. But what begins as an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, leads, in fact, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. To escape a society moving in all the wrong directions, Cole and two companions decide to seek their future in Mexico, a land at once beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized.

Winner, 1992 National Book Award and National Book Critics's Circle AwardĪ critical triumph, this is the story of John Grady Cole, who at 16 finds himself at the dying end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy #1)