Cities of the Plain: The Border Trilogy 3

　　Volume Three of the Border Trilogy

　　In Cities of the Plain, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition.

　　In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn again and again, in this story of friendships and passion, to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.

　　‘In a lovely and terrible landscape of natural beauty and impending loss we find John Grady; a young cowboy of the old school, trusted by men and horses, and a fragile young woman, whose salvation becomes his obsession . . . McCarthy makes the sweeping plains a miracle’ Scotsman

　　‘This haunting, deeply felt novel completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990s’ Daily Telegraph

　　‘The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature’ Guardian

作者簡介

戈馬克．麥卡錫Cormac McCarthy（1933.7.20-）

　　一九三三年於美國羅德島出生，原名查爾斯．麥卡錫（Charles McCarthy）。曾獲詹姆斯泰特布萊克紀念文學獎（英國歷史最悠久之文學獎）、美國國家書卷獎、美國國家書評人獎、普立茲文學獎、鵝毛筆獎等眾多獎 項，被譽為是海明威與福克納的唯一後繼者。

　　一九六五年於藍燈書屋出版第一本小說The Orchard Keeper（此書編輯正是與福克納長期合作的Albert Erskine），其後陸續出版Outer Dark、Child of God、Suttree等，皆獲好評。

　　一九八五年出版的《血色子午線》（Blood Meridian）為麥卡錫創作生涯的轉捩點。此書開啟了麥卡錫往後以美國西部為創作背景的一系列作品。一九九二年出版的「邊境三部曲（Border Trilogy）」首卷《所有漂亮的馬》（All the Pretty Horses），獲得大眾讀者的廣泛注意，將麥卡錫推向暢銷作家之林。生性低調的他，也在此時首度接受媒體專訪。二○○六年，《紐約時報》將「邊境三部 曲」列為美國近二十五年來最優秀的小說作品；大受矚目之新作《長路》獲詹姆斯泰特布萊克紀念文學獎、普立茲小說獎、美國鵝毛筆獎，並由數十家 國際媒體及歐 普拉讀書俱樂部選為好書。

　　二○○八年，由《險路》（No Country for Old Men）改編的電影《險路勿近》囊括奧斯卡四項大獎。

　　二○○九年，獲美國筆會頒發索爾貝婁文學終生成就獎。麥卡錫現與妻子Jennifer McCarthy及幼子John Francis McCarthy居於新墨西哥州聖塔菲。

　　Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten acclaimed novels, most recently The Road. Among his honors are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.