Cities of the Plain
by Cormac McCarthy
List Price: $13.00
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0679747192
Publisher: Vintage
Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in 1933 and spent most of his
childhood near Knoxville, Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Air Force and
later studied at the University of Tennessee. In 1976 he moved to El Paso,
Texas, where he lives today.
McCarthy's fiction parallels
his movement from the Southeast to the West--the first four novels being
set in Tennessee, the last three in the Southwest and Mexico. The Orchard
Keeper (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed
by Outer Dark (1968), Child of God (1973), Suttree
(1979), Blood Meridian (1985), and All the Pretty Horses,
which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National
Book Award for fiction in 1992. All the Pretty Horses was the first
volume in McCarthy's Border Trilogy, which also consists of The Crossing
(1994) and Cities of the Plain (1998).
McCarthy is the recipient
of a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation, among other grants.
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