THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN. Volume Three The Border Trilogy

Published by New York Alfred A. Knopf 1998

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First Edition, first printing. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth backed boards, in the original illustrated dustjacket. 293 pp. A fine copy, both book and dustjacket very well preserved, the jacket spine panel with light mellowing. FIRST EDITION. The third installment in McCarthy’s famed "Border Trilogy" which also included "All the Pretty Horses’ and ‘The Crossing’. "The final volume of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, binds together the separate tales of John Grady Cole from All the Pretty Horses and Billy Parham from The Crossing to create a more realistic Billy and a more mythic John Grady. Within the confines of a relatively spare 293 pages, the classic "all-american cowboy" John Grady devotes himself to saving every hurt or wounded creature that crosses his path, a noble and impossible task that leads ultimately to his own destruction. The tragedy of his failed rescue of the epileptic prostitute Magdalena makes a martyr of the near-faultless John Grady, yet McCarthy stubbornly refuses to let the novel backslide into blubbery melodrama. Told in both McCarthy's signature lyrical style and his dead-on ranchero dialogue, Cities of the Plain ends the trilogy at the height of McCarthy's storytelling skill." - Knopf.

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Title
THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN. Volume Three The Border Trilogy
Author
McCarthy Cormac
Publisher
New York Alfred A. Knopf 1998
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Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition

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