Name: Cities of the Plain
Price: 17.43 EUR
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Author: McCarthy, Cormac
ISBN: 9780679747192

Type

Physical Book

Author

Cormac McCarthy

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1999

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 13.4 x 1.7 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN

0679747192

ISBN13

9780679747192

Edition No.

Synopsis "Cities of the Plain "

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The third volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road - A darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the South, the twin cities of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. It is a life that is about to change forever, and John Grady and Billy both know it. The catalyst for that change appears in the form of a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute. When John Grady falls in love, Billy agrees--against his better judgment--to help him rescue the girl from her suavely brutal pimp. The ensuing events resonate with the violence and inevitability of classic tragedy. Hauntingly beautiful, filled with sorrow, humor and awe, Cities of the Plain is a genuine American epic. Look for Cormac McCarthy's new novel, The Passenger.

Cormac McCarthy

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(Rhode Island, 1933 - 2023 New Mexico) spent much of his childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, where his first four novels are set. By 1965, he began to attract international critical attention with The Orchard Keeper, for which he won the Faulkner Award.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Road and the National Book Award for All the Pretty Horses. He is considered one of the four major American novelists of his time. His dense prose is categorized within the Southern Gothic genre for its stylistic complexity and the darkness and violence it presents. His books Outer Dark, Child of God, and Suttree, have been compared to the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

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