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Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy #3)

Cormac McCarthy

Paperback | Pages: 292 pages

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Title	:	Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy #3)
Author	:	Cormac McCarthy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Vintage International Edition, July 1999
Pages	:	Pages: 292 pages
Published	:	July 1999 by Vintage Books (first published May 12th 1998)
Categories	:	Fiction. Westerns. Literature. Novels

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The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico, not far from the proving grounds of Alamogordo and the cities of El Paso and Juarez. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. They value that life all the more because they know it is about to change forever.

The change comes when John Grady falls in love with a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute and sets in motion a chain of events as violent as they are unstoppable. Haunting in its beauty, filled with sorrow, humor, and awe, Cities of the Plain is a genuine American epic.

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Original Title:	Cities of the Plain
ISBN:	0679747192 (ISBN13: 9780679747192)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Border Trilogy #3
Characters:	John Grady Cole, Billy Parham
Setting:	New Mexico(United States)
Literary Awards:	International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2000)

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I met Cormac McCarthy and he transcribed our conversation about Cities of the Plain:The author asked, Whad'ya think about the book? The last in the trilogy?That's it. It was alright, Jason said.What was alright?Cities of the PlainWhat specifically?The simple language and the economy of words and the lack of punctuation, quotations especially. How you made simple things like chores seem interesting and wonderful.That's fair. It's actually harder to write like that than you think.I bet.Was it

This completes the Border Trilogy for me, which I've been slowly savoring for many months, sometimes in print form and sometimes audio. The trilogy is a remarkable achievement, and it has been a memorable reading journey for me.CITIES OF THE PLAIN may be the weakest of the three books, but perhaps I quibble, and I prefer to think of the trilogy as a whole anyway. For all the harshness and violence in these novels, what will stick with me are the haunting beauty and profound sadness.I happened to

Its probably not a secret at this point that Im a McCarthy groupie. These books are just so good. This third of the loosely-defined Border Trilogy novels bring together John Grady Cole of All the Pretty Horses and Billy Parham of The Crossing, who are now working on the same ranch in West Texas. Neither of the mens histories are mentioned in any great detail in this book, but I feel like it would be a horrible shame to read this book without understanding the back-story from the previous two

The Border Trilogy finale, the ending--at least *an* ending.I greatly enjoyed Cities of the Plain. The book was much more dialogue-driven than the previous two--moreso than most McCarthy. It read quite like a screenplay (honestly I'm surprised there's no adaptation in the works--no Matt Damon please). Landscape descriptions, landscape as a character itself, is toned down, replaced with scene and scenario, the near-exciting humdrum of cowboy ranching life, a moribund profession and way of life.

For me the least successful of the trilogy though there was still much to love. This brings back the central characters of books one and two. It's essentially a love story. John Grady Cole falls in love with a young girl who suffers from epilepsy and works in a Mexican brothel. His aim to rescue and marry her. The problem is her pimp is very possessive of her. The most moving relationships though are those the boy shares with the elderly Mac and his friend Billy. This novel is less violent than

I met Cormac McCarthy and he transcribed our conversation about Cities of the Plain:The author asked, Whad'ya think about the book? The last in the trilogy?That's it. It was alright, Jason said.What was alright?Cities of the PlainWhat specifically?The simple language and the economy of words and the lack of punctuation, quotations especially. How you made simple things like chores seem interesting and wonderful.That's fair. It's actually harder to write like that than you think.I bet.Was it

I was really surprised at just how talkative this book is. It's got more dialogue than anything else Mcarthy's written. Which makes sense because this book evokes not just single lonely lives, but an entire, lonely lifestyle. Cities of the Plain partakes easily of the typical tropes of American westerns, doomed love, the sense of loss for an increasingly marginalized and antiquated cowboy culture at odds with a modernizing west, what have you. But it's much more than just a thin genre piece