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Cities of the Plain

by McCarthy, Cormac

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9780679423904
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Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998 Magisterial novel from this very great writer. Fresh prose, brilliant story. The Final volume in the extraordinary Border trilogy. The jacket is not price clipped and it is protected inside a mylar sleeve. The book itself looks unread, although one corner of the binding has a slight ding. Every page is full of magnificent prose wonders. World first printing of the first US hardback edition. 0.0 0.0 0.0. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

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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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Title
Cities of the Plain
Author
McCarthy, Cormac
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st Edition.
ISBN 10
0679423907
ISBN 13
9780679423904
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1998
Keywords
NEW MEXICO FICTION TEXAS MEN

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