Cities of the Plain
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Cities of the Plain is a 1998 novel by Cormac McCarthy and the final book of his Border Trilogy, after All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing. It brings together the heroes of the first two books. In 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham work as cowboys on a New Mexico ranch near El Paso. John Grady falls in love with Magdalena, a young epileptic prostitute in a Juárez brothel, and plans to marry her, putting him in conflict with her dangerous pimp, Eduardo.
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