All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

The first in the "Border Trilogy".  I should have read this novel a long time ago.  A great portrayal of frontier life.  It reminds me of Larry McMurtry with the gloves off.  Like all great westerns it is the story of a good man treated badly and the journey.  Like the road I thought this book was simultaneously devasting in some of its character portrayals and settings but somehow positive or optimistic.  Brilliant.  Buy the trilogy! http://kimberleybookshop.e-web.com.au/Fiction/Fiction/border-trilogy