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Book Review of All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy, Vol 1)

All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy, Vol 1)
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The "cowboy" has been an exoticized icon that equates masculinity with ruggedness in appearance and simplicity of lifestyle...an idyllic image.

For this Los Angeles urbanite, McCarthy successfully extinguishes this pre-determined image in a brutal tale on the hardships of being and living as a cowboy.