Cities of the Plain (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679747192)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The third volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road - 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.

Look for Cormac McCarthy's new novel, The Passenger.


Author: Cormac McCarthy
ISBN-10: 0679747192
ISBN-13: 9780679747192
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/25/1999
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.28w x 0.67d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 68570 / Cities of the Plain


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 07/01/1999 pg. 9
Entertainment Weekly 08/06/1999 pg. 57
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 104

About the Author
Cormac McCarthy received the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses.