This lyrical, coming-of-age novel is set in the 1940s. It's about a 16-year-old boy John Grady Cole who leaves his Texas home when his grandfather dies. With his parents already split up and his mother working out of town, there is no longer reason for him to stay. He and his friend Lacey Rawlins ride their horses south into Mexico; they are joined by another boy, the mysterious Jimmy Blevins, a 14-year-old sharpshooter... While looking for work there hearding cattle and horses, John Grady encounters his first love which turns tragic...
This novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy has won the National Book Award in 1992.
In Russian language. Publisher: Inostranka, Russia. Hardcover. 396 pages.
