Cities Of the Plain

by McCarthy, Cormac

Cities of the Plain is the final volume of American novelist Cormac McCarthy's The Border Trilogy. The title is a reference to Sodom and Gomorrah. The novel brings together John Grady Cole from All the Pretty Horses and Billy Parnham from The Crossing. Cities of the Plain focuses on Parnham's doomed relationship with a young Mexican prostitute.

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Cities of the Plain was first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1998. The first edition has reviews on the back dust jacket from Kurt Tidmore and Robert Hass. The retail." price was $24.00, and "First Edition" is stated on the copyright page. 

 One thousand copies were issued with a special signed limitation page tipped in for "friends of the author and publisher." 

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New Orleans: B.E. Trice, 1998. Fine in fine slipcase.. Beautifully bound limited edition of the third volume of McCarthy's Border Trilogy. Following McCarthy's ALL THE PRETTY HORSES and THE CROSSING, CITIES OF THE PLAIN returns to characters John Grady and Billy Parham, struggling to make a living on a drought-stricken cattle ranch near the Southwestern border of the… Read more about this item
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Cities of the Plain: A Novel (Border Trilogy, Vol. 3)

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