title: Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
author:  Stephen Tatum 
description: "Study Aids Get Chic<BR>Concerned about keeping up at the book club? Stuck for something to say when dinner party talk turns to Zadie Smith? Or no time to read Captain Corellis Mandolin before the movie comes out? Never fear, cool new study aids are here in the form of Continuum Contemporaries....The Novel Approach, a series of handy readers guides to contemporary fiction. Launching in September, with further waves in January and May 2002, theyre much slicker than the frumpy cheat-aids of yore, including everything from website links to review buzz, and deliberately featuring new novels such as Bridget Joness Diary, The Shipping News, Trainspotting, and even the Harry Potter books." Time Out (London)<br /><br />"A brilliant ideashort, perceptive books which tell you what you need to know about some of the most vibrant and challenging writing around todaya bit like having a reading group in your pocket."Ian Rankin<br /><br />"A concise yet meaty discussion of the noveluseful and illuminating."cormacmccarthy.com<br /><br />"The series comes as near to squaring various circles - popular / academic, 'good read' / 'classic Lit', novel / film of the book as any I know. And at best it goes a fair way towards reshuffling those categories and redrawing the boundaries. With the first volume, I was relieved. After two or three, I was hooked. <BR><BR>The books are invaluable for gathering out-of-the-way or ephemeral comment from TV and radio interviews and the web as well as from literary reviews. <BR><BR>Refreshingly upfront and up-to-date<BR><BR>Given the space, there are remarkably balanced film/novel comparisons of the most well-known examples<BR><BR>An important feature is the fully referenced bibliographies, including reviews and copious website addresses - the latter ranging from fanzines and authors' and publishers' own sites to academic discussion lists and online journals. <BR><BR>In method as in subject matter, these guides move freely on the interface between print culture and multimedia. Highly finished and pleasantly handleable as books in their own right, they gesture accommodatingly to both words and worlds beyond. <BR><BR>Taking the series as a whole, it also confirms two things: that narrative nowadays is generically highly hybrid and increasingly cross-media; and that an understanding of the processes of writing and reading 'contemporary classic' (or at least 'currently famous') fiction cannot be separated - yet must be distinguished - from the processes of making and marketing books and films."<BR> The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 31, 2002<BR>
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  # ACCLAIM FOR  
    
   _Cormac McCarthy’s_  
    
  ALL THE PRETTY HORSES
  
  
  
  
  
  “Surely one of the great American novels.”
  
  
  — _USA Today_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “A major achievement.”
  
  
  — _The New York Times_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “A genuine miracle in prose… no novelist save Melville has ever given us
  greater detail of flora, fauna and landscape; none suffuses prose with
  landscape the way McCarthy does.”
  
  
  — _Chicago Tribune_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “McCarthy [writes] a crystalline, pulsing prose that is a joy to read.”
  
  
  — _San Francisco Chronicle_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “A storyteller’s tale in the highest sense, riveting in its detail and action,
  profound in its lessons.”
  
  
  — _Atlanta Journal & Constitution_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “No other novelist in America _seems to_ have looked the work _of_ Faulkner in
  the eye without blinking and lived to write in his spirit without sounding
  like a parody of the master. _… [All the Pretty Horses]_ is like no other work
  of fiction published in this decade.”
  
  
  — _Dallas Morning News_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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