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.
Hauntingly beautiful, filled with sorrow, humor and awe, Cities of the Plain is a genuine American epic..
The ensuing events resonate with the violence and inevitability of classic tragedy.
When John Grady falls in love, Billy agrees--against his better judgment--to help him rescue the girl from her suavely brutal pimp.
The catalyst for that change appears in the form of a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute.
It is a life that is about to change forever, and John Grady and Billy both know it.
Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light.
To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the South, the twin Cities of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico.
The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands.
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
