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Cities of the Plain Unknown - 1998
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 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
- Author Cormac McCarthy
- Binding unknown
- Publisher Books on Tape
- Date 1998
- ISBN 9781415918586