05031cam a2200853 4500 594959956 TxAuBib 20220529120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307777522 0307777529 B003YJEXRU Amazon 1b8ef7e8-0afa-41cc-a209-3e0718e4c126 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 452919 OverDrive (Product ID) 110474 110474 110474 TxAuBib McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- Cities of the Plain [Libby] : Border Trilogy, Book 3. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. literary fiction. Historical. romance. McCarthy. classic fiction. Fiction. westerns. novels. classic. love. cowboy. Collection. Short Stories. Historical Fiction. mystery. Classics. cormac mccarthy. executioner. americana. western. classic literature. literature. American Literature. fiction books. western fiction. western novels. classic novels. classics books. classic books. western books. child of God. westerns books. western book. realistic fiction books. books fiction. christmas gifts for men. cormac mccarthy books. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2143kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Classic Literature. Fiction. Literature. Western. HTML:In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of <i>All the Pretty Horses</i> and <i>The Crossing</i> now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.<br /> <br /> In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham—nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know—are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north, at Alamogordo, by the military. To the south, always on the horizon are the mountains of Mexico, looming over El Paso, Ciudad Juárez and all the cities of the plain.<br /> Bound by nature to horses and cattle and range, these two discover that ranchlife domesticity is compromised, for them and the men they work with, by a geometry of loss afflicting old and young alike, those who have survived it and anyone about to try. And what draws one of them across the border again and again, what would bind "those disparate but fragile worlds," is a girl seized by ill fortune, and a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.<br /> <br /> This story of friendship and passion is enfolded in a narrative replete with character and place and event—a blind musician, a marauding pack of dogs, curio shops and ancient petroglyphs, a precocious shoe-shine boy, trail drives from the century before, midnight on the highway—and with landforms and wildlife and horses and men, most of all men and the women they love and mourn, men and their persistence and memories and dreams.<br /> <br /> With the terrible beauty of <b><i>Cities of the Plain</i></b>—with its magisterial prose, humor both wry and out-right, fierce conviction and unwavering humanity—Cormac McCarthy has completed a landmark of our literature and times, an epic that reaches from tales of the old west, the world past, into the new millennium, the world to come. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-28 20:00:02. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/1B8/EF7/E8/CitiesofthePlainTheBorderTrilogyBook09780307777522.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1B8EF7E8-0AFA-41CC-A209-3E0718E4C126&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/1B8/EF7/E8/CitiesofthePlainTheBorderTrilogyBook09780307777522.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1B8EF7E8-0AFA-41CC-A209-3E0718E4C126&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/1B8/EF7/E8/CitiesofthePlainTheBorderTrilogyBook09780307777522.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1B8EF7E8-0AFA-41CC-A209-3E0718E4C126&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)