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Cities of the Plain: The Boder Trilogy (Border Trilogy 3) Book

On a Texan ranch, soon after the second world war, a group of solitary, inarticulately lonely men gathers to work animals as the sun sets for good on the mythic American West. All of these men nurse losses both personal (siblings or wives) and collective (a shared lifestyle and philosophy). Among them is John Grady Cole, the adolescent hero of the first book in Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy, All the Pretty Horses. John Grady remains the magnificent horseman he always was, and he still dreams too much. On the ranch, he meets Billy Parham, whose own tragic sojourn through Mexico in The Crossing, the second book of the set, continues to quietly suffocate him. The two form a friendship that will nurture both but save neither from the destiny that McCarthy's characters always sense lurching to meet them. Soaked in storm-heavy atmosphere but brightened by the ranchers' easy camaraderie and gentle humour, Cities of the Plain surprises with its sweetness. The awkward doomed-romance plot at the centre of this tight, concise novel fails to convince, but, remarkably, does little to undercut the book's impact. What lingers here, and what matters, are the brooding, eerie portraits of the plains and the riders, glimpsed mostly alone but occasionally leaning together, who slip across them, over the horizon and into memory. -- Glen Hirshberg Read More

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  • Amazon

    In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn again and again to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.

  • TheBookPeople

    This is Volume Three of the Border Trilogy. In Cities of the Plain, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn again and again, in this story of friendships and passion, to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable. 'In a lovely and terrible landscape of natural beauty and impending loss we find John Grady; a young cowboy of the old school, trusted by men and horses, and a fragile young woman, whose salvation becomes his obsession ...McCarthy makes the sweeping plains a miracle' - Scotsman. 'This haunting, deeply felt novel completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990s' - Daily Telegraph. 'The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' - Guardian.

  • ASDA

    In the fall of 1952 John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico where one of the men is drawn again and again to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.

  • Blackwell

    The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' Guardian Volume Three of the Border Trilogy In Cities of the Plain, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together...

  • BookDepository

    Cities of the Plain : Paperback : Pan Macmillan : 9780330511209 : 0330511203 : 01 Jan 2010 : 'The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' Guardian

  • Foyles

    `The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature Guardian

  • 0330511203
  • 9780330511209
  • Cormac McCarthy
  • 1 January 2010
  • Picador
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 304
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