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A young Texas cowboy rides into 1930s Mexico seeking freedom and finds love, violence, and a vanishing frontier way of life.
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A young Texas cowboy rides into 1930s Mexico seeking freedom and finds love, violence, and a vanishing frontier way of life.
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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.
Along with The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998), it constitues McCarthy's "Border Trilogy", an elegy for the American Frontier, written in an un...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Central romance with on-page intimacy; sexual content present but not highly graphic
Violence & gore
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Knife fights, gun violence, torture, bloody injuries; human and animal deaths
Profanity
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Occasional strong language and vulgar speech throughout
Substance use
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Recurring alcohol use; alcoholism depicted
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources
Religious content
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Brief spiritual and philosophical faith references
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Themes of vanishing frontier, modernity, class, and border society
Self-harm / suicide
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Suicide referenced in the narrative
Abuse & suffering
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Torture, confinement, animal cruelty, physical abuse; sexual violence referenced
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