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cities of the plain

Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, Book Three)

August 3, 2012 by Drew

The Short Version: Some ten years after The Crossing, Billy Parham has met up with John Grady Cole working on a ranch in southern New Mexico.  The world is inexorably moving on from the cowboy way of life but they, along with a handful of others, make do.  But when John Grady falls in love with a Mexican prostitute, both men must cross back into the wild country that they roamed as younger men. The Review: Now here it is.  […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy, Fiction, Literature, The Border Trilogy

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The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, Book Two)

The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, Book Two)

July 28, 2012 by Drew

The Short Version: Billy Parham, with his father and younger brother, sets out to trap a wolf in New Mexico.  After capturing the wolf, he strikes south and brings it back to Mexico, where it came from – but while he’s there, he’s faced with a serious reckoning that sets his life spinning off in a strange direction.  Eventually, he finds his way back to the States only to find his parents dead and so he and his brother set off […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Cormac McCarthy, Fiction, Literature, The Border Trilogy, The Crossing

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pretty horses

All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book One)

April 22, 2012 by Drew

The Short Version: John Grady Cole, a young Texas cowboy, suddenly finds himself disinherited and so he sets off with his best friend for Mexico.  Along the way, they meet another young man and a beautiful girl and John Grady starts to slowly see the world moving on, away from what he thought he understood. The Review:  That’s a pretty vague synopsis, I know… I guess I just didn’t want to call it a bildungsroman.  Even though that’s what it […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: All the Pretty Horses, America, BookClub, Cormac McCarthy, Fiction, Literature, The Border Trilogy

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sunset limited

The Sunset Limited

April 28, 2010 by Drew

I want to direct this play. I knew, vaguely, that Cormac McCarthy had written some dramatic work but I’m more familiar with his more-recent novels like No Country for Old Men and The Road.  This play is subtitled “A Novel in Dramatic Form” but I think that’s not really giving credit to the theatricality of the text.  I mean, maybe McCarthy felt it would be too boring to put onstage, I don’t know.  Steppenwolf did it a few years ago […]

Categories: Cannonball Read II, Contemporary, Literary Challenges, Plays • Tags: Book #37, Cannonball Read II, Contemporary, Cormac McCarthy, Plays, The Sunset Limited

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