Fiction

Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy #3, 1998) by Cormac McCarthy

A Work of Art

cg fewstonCities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A very fine novel, Cities of the Plain (1998) by Cormac McCarthy will haunt you with questions of love and mortality. A very fine novel indeed, much like Cormac’s 1979 novel Suttree.

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Cormac McCarthy, American Novelist (born 1933)

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The Border Trilogy:

#1, All the Pretty Horses

#2, The Crossing

#3, Cities of the Plain

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CG FEWSTON

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CG FEWSTON is an American novelist. Born in Texas in 1979, he has been a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome and a Visiting Fellow at Hong Kong’s CityU. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London and has been a member of the Hemingway Society, Americans for the Arts, PEN America, and the Royal Society of Literature.

He holds a B.A. in English, an M.Ed. in Higher Education Leadership (honors), an M.A. in Literature (honors), and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Fiction.

His books include A Father’s Son (2005), The New America: A Collection (2007), The Mystic’s Smile (2007), Vanity of Vanities (2011), A Time to Love in Tehran (2015), Little Hometown, America (2020), A Time to Forget in East Berlin (2022), Conquergood & the Center of the Intelligible Mystery of Being (2023), and A Time to Remember in Moscow. Cowboy — or, A Communion of Saints (2026) is set in 1901 Texas.

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