num_pages: 293
description: The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. 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. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico, not far from the proving grounds of Alamogordo and the cities of El Paso and Juarez. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. They value that life all the more because they know it is about to change forever.The change comes when John Grady falls in love with a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute and sets in motion a chain of events as violent as they are unstoppable. Haunting in its beauty, filled with sorrow, humor, and awe, Cities of the Plain is a genuine American epic.
language: English
title: Cities of the Plain
titlecomplete: Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
characters: Billy Parham, John Grady Cole
genres: Adventure, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Westerns, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 25550
places: New Mexico
series: The Border Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Vintage Books