Review: All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses is the second book by Cormac McCarthy book I’ve read, and this author’s prose is like poetry. He really has a way with describing scenes of the countryside, the love of horses, and the tragedy of a man’s destiny within a blind, or indifferent, universe.

The story focuses on the young John Grady Cole, who sets off on an adventure, on horseback, into Mexico with his childhood friend Lacey Rawlins. Along the way the encounter this kid, Jimmy Blevins, riding a beautiful horse. The resulting incidents lead the trio into deeper trials of their character and courage as they face the worst in humanity, love, and the land itself.