Cities of the Plain
10 December 2010Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Two men marked by boyhood adventures now stand together, forced to confront a country changing beyond recognition. Cities of the Plain brings Cormac McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy to its brutal, inevitable conclusion.
'The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' – Guardian
1952, New Mexico. John Grady Cole, last seen in All the Pretty Horses, works as a ranch hands...
Details
10 December 2010304 pages
9780330474733Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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
Like the Western settings he captures to perfection, his work is both heart-wrenchingly beautiful and uncompromisingly brutal.Express
The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literatureGuardian
This haunting, deeply felt novel completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990sTelegraph
