Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won
the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan,
crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick
up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south
and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with
McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers
will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age.

Read by Frank Muller

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