Cormac McCarthy-Cities of the Plain

As it begins (in 1952), Billy is still a cowboy with an “outlaw” heart, and John Grady (with whom he works as a ranch hand in southwestern New Mexico), who’s nine years his senior, dreams of finally settling down. The object of the latter’s desires, a teenaged Mexican prostitute (and “epileptica”) named Magdalena, is the “property” of a malevolent pimp whose possessiveness will precipitate this increasingly somber story’s inevitably violent climax--a one-on-one