Cities of the Plain
by McCarthy, Cormac
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679423907
- ISBN 13
- 9780679423904
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About This Item
Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition. Brodart protected. not remaindered. not price clipped. This book was named one of the best books of the last twenty-five years by the New York Times. .
Synopsis
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 b rings 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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- Bookseller
- Tome Raiders (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000789
- Title
- Cities of the Plain
- Author
- McCarthy, Cormac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679423907
- ISBN 13
- 9780679423904
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Inc
- Place of Publication
- Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Cormac McCarthy, first edition, Cities of the Plain
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