«The finest action writer since Hemingway . . . a darkly shining work . . . immensely entertaining . . . executed with consummate skill and much subtlety - the effect is magnificent»

Observer

«One of the greatest American novels of this or any time»

Guardian

«A uniquely brilliant book . . . told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting . . . One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time»

Sunday Times

«A book of remarkable beauty and strength, the work of a master in perfect command of his medium»

Washington Post

«The prose is clean and hard as pebbles»

Independent on Sunday

«In a single stride it takes McCarthy to the forefront of contemporary American fiction. All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece»

Financial Times

«A masterpiece»

Time Out

«Its elegaic rhythm captures the bandlands of Texas and northern Mexico with a passion most writers either couldn't muster or wouldnt' dare»

Boston Globe