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' âEUR" 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' âEUR" 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' âEUR" 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 âEUR¿McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse his books
were terrifying and absoluteâEUR(TM) âEUR" 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' âEUR" 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' âEUR" Annie Proulx author of Brokeback Mountain Part of
the Picador Collection a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
