Cities of the Plain (First Edition)
Language: English
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1998
Series: Book 3 of 3 - The Border Trilogy
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.Dan Pope Books
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Knopf, New York, 1998. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a near fine jacket. A clean tight copy, with very slight fading to spine of jacket and two tiny signes of wear on rear lower edge of jacket. Original publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($24). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. This is the final book of McCarthy's celebrated Border Trilogy, following All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing. In the borderlands of Texas and Mexico in the early 1950s, the novel reunites John Grady Cole and Billy Parham. Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) was author of Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, and the Pulitzer Prize winning The Road.
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- Title
- Cities of the Plain (First Edition)
- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0679423907
- ISBN 13
- 9780679423904
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Series
- Book 3 of 3: The Border Trilogy
In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham--nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know--are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north, at Alamogordo, by the military. To the south, always on the horizon are the mountains of Mexico, looming over El Paso, Ciudad Juárez and all the cities of the plain.
Bound by nature to horses and cattle and range, these two discover that ranchlife domesticity is compromised, for them and the men they work with, by a geometry of loss afflicting old and young alike, those who have survived it and anyone about to try. And what draws one of them across the border again and again, what would bind "those disparate but fragile worlds," is a girl seized by ill fortune, and a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.
This story of friendship and passion is enfolded in a narrative replete with character and place and event--a blind musician, a marauding pack of dogs, curio shops and ancient petroglyphs, a precocious shoe-shine boy, trail drives from the century before, midnight on the highway--and with landforms and wildlife and horses and men, most of all men and the women they love and mourn, men and their persistence and memories and dreams.
With the terrible beauty of Cities of the Plain--with its magisterial prose, humor both wry and out-right, fierce conviction and unwavering humanity--Cormac McCarthy has completed a landmark of our literature and times, an epic that reaches from tales of the old west, the world past, into the new millennium, the world to come.
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