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Title: Cities of the Plain
Review: Cities of the Plain presents a challenge for any reader who mistakenly chooses to bypass the first two painstakingly accurate and eloquent tales of the American Southwest with its ever present magical realism. Perhaps McCarthy has ascended the same breathtaking pinnacles in "Big Bend" to scan the Mexican horizon or has dug his fingers in the sandy dust of the desert scrubland, all the while assimilating those same visions of his characters Billy Parham and John Grady. Through his intricate Romantic descriptions of the Southwest, I have become a believer in the lure of the 'cities of the plain'.
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