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Primi anni Cinquanta. John Grady Cole e Billy Parham lavorano in un ranch fra il Texas e il Messico. Insieme allevano cavalli, ascoltano sotto le stelle i racconti dei vecchi cowboy, si divertono al bar o al bordello. E al bordello John Grady incontra una sedicenne così bella da cambiargli la vita. Così contesa da costringerlo a scontrarsi con il protettore-filosofo Eduardo, in un duello allo stesso tempo epico e metafisico. Ultimo capitolo della "trilogia della frontiera", Città della pianura parte dove arrivavano i primi due romanzi, Cavalli selvaggi e Oltre il confine. In un West sempre più al crepuscolo, la natura esplode fuori e dentro i protagonisti, splendida e spietata. E se percepire il respiro delle cose, restituirlo nella forma di una superiore sapienza, è privilegio di pochi, nemmeno quei pochi possono cambiare gli eventi: possono soltanto far sentire la misteriosa forza che tiene insieme gli alberi, gli animali e i destini degli uomini.
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- Pagine: 340
- Data di uscita: 18-04-2018
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The novel starts with a bunch of young cowboys in the American southwest — just after World War II — volubly choosing whores in a tavern-cum-bordello. That image evokes the cities of the title, which were in the end, it should be observed, destroyed by God. This is the last volume of a border trilog Leggi tutto
The Border Trilogy – Part 3 of 3 In this final novel of The Border Trilogy, both John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working at Mac Ranch, owned by a fellow named McGovern. Everyone calls him Mac, and all the cowboys on the ranch know that their time together appears to be limited as the government Leggi tutto
For me the least successful of the trilogy though there was still much to love. This brings back the central characters of books one and two. It's essentially a love story. John Grady Cole falls in love with a young girl who suffers from epilepsy and works in a Mexican brothel. His aim to rescue and Leggi tutto
A Real Cowboy Never Sells His Horse Billy, from “The Crossing,’ is older now and is working on a ranch in Southeastern New Mexico. The year is 1952. John Grady, a character from maybe “All the Pretty Horses,” is there too. Ranch work can be interesting, that is, if you only talk about the interesting Leggi tutto
King of Campfire Philosophy. If you consider Cormac McCarthy novels from All the Pretty Horses to The Road/No Country for Old Men, Cities of the Plain is less violent but much more lyrical. It is a tad less fantastic and a speck more real in that literary realm. & the cities of El Paso and Juarez (T Leggi tutto
The Border Trilogy finale, the ending--at least *an* ending. I greatly enjoyed Cities of the Plain . The book was much more dialogue-driven than the previous two--moreso than most McCarthy. It read quite like a screenplay (honestly I'm surprised there's no adaptation in the works--no Matt Damon please Leggi tutto
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