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Cities of the Plain

(Vintage International)

By Cormac McCarthy

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| Paperback | 9780679747192

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In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier.  

The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. ToContinue

In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier.  

The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the South, the twin cities of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. It is a life that is about to change forever, and John Grady and Billy both know it.

The catalyst for that change appears in the form of a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute.  When John Grady falls in love, Billy agrees--against his better judgment--to help him rescue the girl from her suavely brutal pimp. The ensuing events resonate with the violence and inevitability of classic tragedy.   Hauntingly beautiful, filled with sorrow, humor and awe, Cities of the Plain is a genuine American epic.

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  • Cities of the Plain By Cormac McCarthy

    Cities of the Plain is eagerly awaited final novel in Cormac McCarthy's magnificent Border Trilogy. Like its brilliant predecessors, All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing, Cities of the Plain tells a riveting story that is simple in form but presses ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

  • The Sun Also Sets

    Cities of the Plain is the concluding novel of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, following All The Pretty Horses (1992) and The Crossing (1994). The critical and commercial success of these books— All the Pretty Horses won a National Book Award, and ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

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  • Perfectly in line with the previous two books of the Border Trilogy, I found this more enjoyable than the second book. The message (one of the messages) is still the same: there is no hope, you are bound to fail, you will pay for your mistakes. And if you make no mistakes, you will still have to pay ... (continue)

    Perfectly in line with the previous two books of the Border Trilogy, I found this more enjoyable than the second book. The message (one of the messages) is still the same: there is no hope, you are bound to fail, you will pay for your mistakes. And if you make no mistakes, you will still have to pay, perhaps for those of others.

    Yes, in the end there is a glimpse of hope for one of the characters. But it is just a glimpse that may last no more than a night. And it comes after 78 years of pain.

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