Cities of the Plain

Everytime I finish a Cormac McCarthy novel I ask myself why haven't I read all of his works ? Clearly he is the greatest of our living writers.

An elegant novel. I like McCarthy's style, and the way this wraps up the trilogy is good. The timeless life on the plains, the short-worded dialogue; all good. The trilogy comes well-recommended.

An interesting conclusion to the Border Trilogy, with all the elements a reader would expect from Cormac. The laconic writing, the dialogue written with such care and truth, and the exquisite pain that underlies all of life.

What I like about Cormac's writing is that it understands that life's joys and pleasures are only found in adjacency to life's sorrow and pain.