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Cities of the Plain

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“All the Pretty Horses”

In All the Pretty Horses: Prose style and commercial success
…with The Crossing in 1994; Cities of the Plain (1998) completes the Border Trilogy.
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In Cormac McCarthy: The Border Trilogy
The trilogy concludes with Cities of the Plain (1998), which interweaves the lives of John Grady Cole and Billy Parham through their employment on a ranch in New Mexico.
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