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Cities of the Plain

By: Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by: Frank Muller
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Two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch, encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn incessantly in this story of friendships and passion to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.©1998 Cormac McCarthy (P)1998 Recorded Books Inc Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural
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It was a Moving story. Beautiful characterisation. A story of love. Read it slowly. It’s worth it.

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The story was narrated in a way that one becomes immersed in the characters and the tale. Your being is invested the fates of the cast. The joys and the heartbreaks. It is personal and deeply felt.

A wonderfully rollercoasters emotion of a read.

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Prose and wit, writing as you have never experienced.
I whole heartedly recommend this book to all.

Sheer joy

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I had such high hopes for this book with John Grady Cole teaming up with Billy Parham. I wanted epic adventures of two young cowboys in big country and it didn't really happen. Did modern life encroach too much? Or had they done all their adventuring in the other books? This book is good and definitely worth a read but not as good as the first two books. Not sure I was satisfied with the John Grady story. But, I must say I was pleased with warmth the ending provided.

Saddle up and finish the trilogy

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I’ve clip-clopped my meandering way through this entire trilogy. Now my eyes are full of wonder, my head is as soar as a caballero’s bum, but my soul is still, somehow, still restless. I think this is because the 2nd book in the series had two complete, successive plots; but this one, disappointingly, had only one. If, like me, you speak no Spanish, you’ll find the frequent & lengthy lapses into that language tiresome. Keep going though. Like the hardships of an empty belly & a week in the saddle, they will lead you through to some other mystery. For example, every man in Mexico is a kind of met-physical philosopher poet - how come? Every woman is silent, though I’d like to hear what she has to say. And any American man is easy to spot - he would think himself talked out if he uttered three syllables in a day. The trilogy, I think, is about the proximity of Mexico, a kind of irresistible Hades

Third and final slice of wonderment

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