Cities Of The Plain

With an introduction by Rachael KushnerIn the vanishing world of the Old West two cowboys begin an epic adventure and their own comingofage stories. In All the Pretty Horses John Grady Coles search for a future takes him across the Mexican border to a job as a ranch hand and an illfated romance. The Crossing is the story of sixteenyearold Billy Parham who sets off on a perilous journey across the mountains of Mexico accompanied only by a lone wolf. Eventually the two come together in Cities of the Plain in a stunning tale of loyalty and love. A true classic of American literature The Border Trilogy is Cormac McCarthys awardwinning requiem for the American frontier. Beautiful and brutal filled equally with sorrow and humour it is a powerful story of two friends growing up in a world where blood and violence are conditions of life.