Books like The Last Picture Show

An American idyll infused with sex & adolescent (as well as much adult) longing. I adored every single page of this fast-moving, microsociety-under-a-lens type story which depicts the sexual and schoolboy escapades of two friends in a small Texas town. This is the last time things will be like this, therefore the adjective "Last" in the title. It is exquisite & very fun to get through. Anecdotal power at its height, Larry McMurtry should've won the Pulitzer Prize for this one, perhaps more so than for his behemoth "Lonesome Dove" (gasp!). This is what's great about America, not a Rockwell portrait, not a ride down the Mississippi with Huck. This is on the cusp of modernity, at the stirrings of current globalization: The Story of the Death of The Small American Town.