McCarthy's john Grady Cole

In 1949, while the pipelines are increasing in Texas and the last cowboys seem reduced to vestiges, it is difficult to imagine even the Wild West and a wild life on a horse. Yet the dreams are two teenagers, John Grady Cole and Lacey Rawlins, far from suspecting the world of violence and suffering in which their dreams will take them.

John Grady Cole, the hero of the novel, is a well atypical excellent horseman, an encyclopedic knowledge for everything related to horses and their training is also a very good chess player, he is remarkably fluent Spanish. When the novel begins, his grandfather has died and his parents divorced his mother, fascinated by the lights of the city, could never bring himself to living on the family ranch, unlike his father , rancher deleted, deeply marked by life, bringing with her sadness and resignation. He probably is the source of this wild dream in which he leads his friend Lacey Rawlins: since there is more to conquer the Wild West, since there is more room for cowboys in the United States, from south, Mexico, where they think he, a life consistent with their ideal is still possible. Men frustrated, greedy landscapes, powdery, wild horses or well-trained, wild horses need to accept clogs to wear and men, wearing them, share some of their secret fearful. Cormac McCarthy, after William Faulkner is without doubt one of the writers who raised horses in the most remarkable ways.

But the path to the Promised Land, they knew hard, yet is more arid than expected. En route, they meet a young, almost a boy, thirteen years old at most fearsome horseman and marksman, a little crazy, calling he Jimmy Blevins, a preacher pronouncing his sermons on the radio. Jimmy Blevins of this, they fail to know that ...