Cities of the Plain
by McCarthy, Cormac
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679423907
- ISBN 13
- 9780679423904
- Seller
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About This Item
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.
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
- the booksniffer (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002758
- 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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