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Biographical note
Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, Child of God and The Passenger. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country for Old Men – the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of 89.In a lovely and terrible landscape of natural beauty and impending loss we find John Grady; a young cowboy of the old school, trusted by men and horses, and a fragile young woman, whose salvation becomes his obsession . . . McCarthy makes the sweeping plains a miracle.
Scotsman
Like the Western settings he captures to perfection, his work is both heart-wrenchingly beautiful and uncompromisingly brutal.
Express
The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature
Guardian
This haunting, deeply felt novel completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990s
Telegraph
Like a slow-acting hallucinogen, the book has managed to transform a Texas boy of sixteen looking for adventure into a mysterious figure that augurs the destruction of the world
- Rachel Kushner, author of <i>The Mars Room</i>,
In the dying days of the American frontier, two men marked by boyhood adventures now stand together, forced to confront a country changing beyond recognition. Cities of the Plain brings Cormac McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy to its brutal, inevitable conclusion.
'The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' – Guardian
1952, New Mexico. John Grady Cole works alongside Billy Parnham. As the military encroaches upon the ranch from the north, the allure of Mexico proves irresistible to John Grady.
When he falls in love with a sex worker south of the border, events are set into motion that will prove as dangerous as they are unstoppable . . .
Cities of the Plain is the final novel in the Border Trilogy. It is preceded by the first two volumes: All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing.
Praise for Cormac McCarthy:
'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute' – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren
'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series
'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.