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CITIES OF THE PLAIN COLLECTION EDITION - CORMAC...

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 alongside Billy Parnham  of The Crossing. These are the dying days of
the American frontier.  From the north  the military encroaches upon the ranch. To the south
are the mountains of Mexico  the pull of which prove irresistible to John Grady. And so it is
that  when he falls in love with a sex worker south of the border  events are set into motion
that will prove as dangerous as they are unstoppable.   'This haunting  deeply felt novel
completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990s' - Telegraph   'Like a slow-acting
hallucinogen  the book has managed to transform a Texas boy of sixteen looking for adventure
into a mysterious figure that augurs the destruction of the world' - Rachel Kushner  author of
The Mars Room    Cities of the Plain is the final novel in the Border Trilogy. It is preceded
by the first two volumes: All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing .  Praise for Cormac McCarthy
'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse  his books were terrifying and absolute' -
Anne Enright  author of The Green Road and The Wren  The Wren   'His prose takes on an almost
biblical quality  hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King 
author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series  '[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in
his rich prose  [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie
Proulx   author of Brokeback Mountain  Part of the Picador Collection  a series showcasing the
best of modern literature.

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