markgalassi reviewed All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (The Border Trilogy, #1)
All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred …
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5 stars
Still not quite done, but I had this reflection:
Just came across a very effective turn of phrase in Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses. I have been reading this book very slowly so as to savor all the amazing passages.
Page 226 of this edition, the main character has been riding past the ruins of an old cabin:
"There was a strange air to the place. As of some site where life had not succeeded."