In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier.
The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the South, the twin cities of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. It is a life that is about to change forever, and John Grady and Billy both know it.
The catalyst for that change appears in the form of a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute. When John Grady falls in love, Billy agrees--against his better judgment--to help him rescue the girl from her suavely brutal pimp. The ensuing events resonate with the violence and inevitability of classic tragedy. Hauntingly beautiful, filled with sorrow, humor and awe, Cities of the Plain is a genuine American epic.
MCCARTHY CORMAC
Cormac McCarthy nació el 20 de julio de 1933 en Providence, Rhode Island, Estados Unidos, con el nombre de Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. En 1937 su familia se trasladó a Knoxville, Tennessee, donde cursó estudios en St. Mary's Parochial School y Knoxville Catholic High School. Asistió a la Universidad de Tennessee sin completar un grado y sirvió en la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos entre 1953 y 1957. Publicó doce novelas, dos obras de teatro, cinco guiones y tres relatos breves, entre ellos Suttree, Blood Meridian, The Border Trilogy, No Country for Old Men y The Road. Falleció el 13 de junio de 2023 en Santa Fe, Nuevo México.
