"All the Pretty Horses," by Cormac McCarthy

🐎 This month we're heading to the borderland between Texas and Mexico. Winning several book awards after its 1992 publication, this title is arguably considered the best introduction to the praised yet controversial author's oeuvre, who is regularly hailed as one of the US's important modern authors (possibly the most important, according to the preeminent literary critic and Yale University professor Harold Bloom). 🐎

Not quite a western, not quite a thriller, but wholly a critique of the American social landscape, it's a coming-of-age tale for two boys set in 1949-50. If you wind up enjoying this novel, it's the first installment of the highly-acclaimed Border Trilogy.

From Goodreads:

The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.