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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' 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.

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