Cities of the Plain

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	• Cities of the Plain Cormac McCarthy Vintage International, 1999 - 292 pages average customer review:based on 102 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Ravishing

I loved this book. It haunted me for weeks after reading it. I wept at the ending. I can't imagine it as a movie, because the books are so perfect, but of course I will see it and try not to get my hopes too high that it will be anything like the books. I wonder if they will just do All The Pretty Horses? I guess Matt Damon will play the hero. In my mind, Billy Crudup would have been a better choice, or anyone slimmer, lighter, more boy-like, more serious. These novels are miraculous; they seem "channeled." I'm rarely envious of other writers, but these are books I would have been proud to write.

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Good book

CITIES OF THE PLAIN is a finely crafted novel, a very compelling tale which weaves a stunning plot much in the style of recent gems like "The Triumph and the Glory" or "Black Notice", or even books of a more techno-thriller bent like "The Devil's Teardrop." Four stars from me, the only weakness was a lack of effort at effective characterization.

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Read the trilogy

If you've never seen the southwest, read any of McCarthy's Southwest/Mexico book, and you almost won't have to. That's how vivid.

Cities of the Plain

Cities of the Plain presents a challenge for any reader who mistakenly chooses to bypass the first two painstakingly accurate and eloquent tales of the American Southwest with its ever present magical realism. Perhaps McCarthy has ascended the same breathtaking pinnacles in "Big Bend" to scan the Mexican horizon or has dug his fingers in the sandy dust of the desert scrubland, all the while assimilating those same visions of his characters Billy Parham and John Grady. Through his intricate Romantic descriptions of the Southwest, I have become a believer in the lure of the 'cities of the plain'.

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