Cities of the Plain (1st U.K. Edition)
by Cormac McCarthy
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Author: Cormac McCarthyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Import
Published: 1998
ISBN: 033034448X
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Picador
Book Reviews of Cities of the Plain (1st U.K. Edition)
Book Review: Haunting and thought provoking
Summary: 4 Stars
"Where there is no penalty there can be no prize" pretty well summarizes the book. I really believe it is McCarthy's descriptions of the situations, people, places, rather than the story itself, that makes this book grab hold of you. The story itself has been told before in other novels and in other ways but, of course, when all put together, rarely so well as does McCarthy. The other reviews will tell you what the book it about. As to the writing . . . the prose is beautiful. However, this book contained several dialogues between two persons and I found McCarthy's choosing not to use quotation marks, etc. sometimes made it hard to follow which character was saying what. Perhaps that was intentional. Could the situation of the one character not have been the situation of the other if each of their lives had been only slightly different? So, perhaps in some of the dialog it made little difference which character was saying what. I did think this book was better written -- flowed along toward a conclusion -- better than The Crossing which was about 50-80 pages too long. Also, in The Crossing I found myself counting the use of the word "like," used to introduce a descriptive phrase, and found its overuse a bit annoying particularly during the last third of the book when I was wondering if it was ever going to end. As a whole I enjoyed the three books of the trilogy but, in the end, I was glad the story had reached an ending.
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