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Igor Legati

    La stanza di Van Gogh ad Arles
    All the Pretty Horses
    Blue highways
    The border trilogy
    • The border trilogy

      • 1056 páginas
      • 37 horas de lectura

      Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning, bestselling trio of novels chronicles the coming-of-age of two young men in the south west of America. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys of the old school, are poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Their journeys across the border into Mexico, each an adventure fraught with fear and pain, mark a passage into adulthood, and eventual salvation. In All the Pretty Horses, young John Grady Cole, dispossessed by the sale of his family’s Texas ranch, heads across the border in search of the cowboy life, where he finds a job breaking horses, and a dangerously ill-fated romance. In The Crossing, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch and, instead of killing it, decides to take it on a perilous journey home to the mountains of Mexico.These two drifters come together years later in Cities of the Plain, a magnificent tale of friendship and passion. In the vanishing world of the Old West, blood and violence are conditions of life. Beautiful and brutal, filled with sorrow and humour, The Border Trilogy is both an epic love story and a fierce elegy for the American frontier.

      The border trilogy2008
      4,5
    • Blue highways

      A Journey Into America

      • 448 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      Published in 1983 to phenomenal reviews, Blue Highways: A Journey into America became a cult classic on par with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. In this highly acclaimed, bestselling memoir, a 38-year-old laid-off college professor of Sioux and white blood drives around the U.S. on the "blue highways, " the rural back made that are colored blue on old maps. The places he discovers during his 13,000-mile journey are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and often full of simply the wonder of the ordinary.-- Blue Highways received extraordinary reviews when it was first published.

      Blue highways2006
      4,2
    • All the Pretty Horses

      • 302 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      The first book in a trilogy centreing on John Grady Cole, the last survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers , who runs off to Mexico after his mother sells their ranch and cuts him off from the only life he has ever wanted; This title is also available as a film.

      All the Pretty Horses2003
      4,1