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Cities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthy
ISBN 13: 9780679747192
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Softcover
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In this magnificent novel, the National Book Award-winning author of "All the Pretty Horses" fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where ranch hands John Grady Cole and Billy Parham become ensnared in events resonating with the violence and inevitability of classic tragedy.
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" In 'Cities of the Plain' McCarthy sustains the momentum, and once again provides a terrific read. But the romance takes up a greater portion of the plot, and one begins to miss the simple evocation of cowboy life that is so stirring in the earlier novels."
Sara Mosle, New York Times Book Review, 05/17/1998
Review:"'The Border Trilogy' gives us two McCarthys. The first one emerges as a direct descendant of Hemingway and gives us some powerful storytelling, delivered in laconic if oddly familiar prose....The second McCarthy emerges as a ham-handed Faulkner pretender and gives us lots of portentous meditations on time and nature and fate.... Happily for the reader, the Hemingway-inspired McCarthy controls the better part of 'Cities of the Plain.' Although the book occasionally lapses into the pretentious mumbo jumbo that made 'The Crossing' such a lugubrious read, 'Cities' showcases McCarthy's gifts as an old-fashioned storyteller; it is, arguably, his most readable, emotionally engaging novel yet."
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 05/22/1998
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