The Crossing
Ratings28
Average rating4.2
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Ratings28
Average rating4.2
“Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth. In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing, he begins an arduous and often dreamlike journey into a country where men meet ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat-lightning--a world where there is no order "save that which death has put there." An essential novel by any measure, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once. Look for Cormac McCarthy's new novel, The Passenger.
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Bleak. But gripping imagery and language.
The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. About 15% of this book is in Spanish, which can be frustrating for non-speakers like me. McCarthy's beautiful prose makes it all worth it though.
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3 primary books4 released booksThe Border Trilogy is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1992 with contributions by Cormac McCarthy.
