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Cities of the Plain (Border Trilogy) Unknown - 1999
by Cormac McCarthy
About this book
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.
First line
THEY STOOD in the doorway and stomped the rain from their boots and swung their hats and wiped the water from their faces.
First Edition Identification
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."
Details
- Title Cities of the Plain (Border Trilogy)
- Author Cormac McCarthy
- Binding unknown
- Publisher Tandem Library
- Date October 1999
- ISBN 9780613171427