Cities of the Plain (McCarthy - paperback)

Author: Cormac McCarthy

ISBN: 9780679747192

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

Notes: The Border Trilogy #3

The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the South, the twin cities of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. It is a life that is about to change forever, and John Grady and Billy both know it.