Cities of the Plain (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Cormac McCarthy
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The early 1950’s
- Setting: The American Southwest
- Principal Characters: John Grady Cole, Billy Parham, Magdalena, Eduardo, An Old Man, Mac
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans
- Locales: Southwest (U.S.)
Cities of the Plain is the third novel in Cormac McCarthy’s western “Border Trilogy.” The first book, All the Pretty Horses, featured John Grady Cole, and the second, The Crossing, featured Billy Parham, two teenage boys involved in similar adventures. Both leave the American Southwest on horseback in the mid-twentieth century and ride deep into Mexico. They experience magnificent and terrible initiations into manhood. John Grady Cole, in All the Pretty Horses, falls in love with the daughter of a high-class hacienda owner, is banished to prison for...
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