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The Crossing

Border Trilogy (2)
By Cormac McCarthy
Series: Vintage International
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The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy is a part of his Border Trilogy, exploring themes of adventure and coming of age. It follows a young boy named Billy Parham who, with his younger brother, undertakes a journey across the U.S.-Mexico border. Throughout his travels, Billy encounters profound challenges and varied characters, set against the backdrop of the sweeping landscapes of the American Southwest.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy stories set in the American Southwest filled with rich, descriptive language and profound themes. It offers a gripping journey of a young man's coming-of-age amidst a rugged landscape, exploring themes of fate, morality, and the human spirit. The narrative draws you in with its deep, philosophical undertones and vivid imagery, perfect for readers who appreciate literary fiction with complex characters and emotional depth.

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A young boy finds his life changed by a dream about wolves running freely on land that has been claimed by settlers, and his subsequent journey involves a parting with everything familiar. Reprint. 225,000 first printing. NYT.

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—fulfils the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time gives us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegiac 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.

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The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy receives praise for its rich, evocative language and profound exploration of themes such as loss and the search for meaning. Set against the vivid backdrop of the American Southwest and Mexico, it's appreciated for intricate storytelling and complex characters. However, some readers find the pacing a bit slow and the narrative challenging to navigate.

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Book Details

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ISBN: 9780679760849

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 March 1995

Country: United States

Imprint: Vintage Books

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 202.0mm

Weight: 312g

Pages: 432

Collections

Cormac McCarthy Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Series: Vintage International

About the Author

The novels of the American writer, CORMAC MCCARTHY, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men—the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. He died in 2023.

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