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Original Title:	The Crossing
ISBN:	0394574753 (ISBN13: 9780394574752)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Border Trilogy #2
Characters:	Billy Parham

The Crossing (The Border Trilogy #2)

Cormac McCarthy

Hardcover | Pages: 426 pages

Rating: 4.13 | 29024 Users | 1890 Reviews

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Title	:	The Crossing (The Border Trilogy #2)
Author	:	Cormac McCarthy
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 426 pages
Published	:	June 7th 1994 by Knopf Publishing Group (first published June 1994)
Categories	:	Fiction. Westerns. Literature. Novels. Historical. Historical Fiction

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Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought. In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on the cusp of unimaginable events. First comes a trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild amongst the cattle lately brought onto the plain by settlers - this when all the wisdom of trappers has disappeared along with the trappers themselves. So Billy sets forth at the age of sixteen on an unwitting journey into the souls of boys, animals and men.

Having trapped a she-wolf he would restore to the mountains of Mexico, he is long gone and returns to find everything he left behind transformed utterly in his absence. Except his kid brother, Boyd, with whom he strikes out yet again to reclaim what is theirs - thus crossing into "that antique gaze from whence there could be no way back forever."

What they find instead, is an extraordinary panoply of fiestas and circuses, dogs, horses and hawks, pilgrims and revolutionaries, grand haciendas and forlorn cantinas, bandits, gypsies and roving tribes, a young girl alone on the road, a mystery in the mountain wilds, and a myth in the making.

And in this wider world they fight a war as rageful as the one neither, in the end, will join up for back home. One brother finds his destiny, while the other arrives only at his fate.

An essential novel by any measure, and the transfixing middle passage of Cormac McCarthy's ongoing trilogy, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops,and starts the heart and mind at once.

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Like McCarthys other work, this second entry in the Border Trilogy (a series of novels set around the border of the U.S. and Mexico near the middle of the 20th century) features lyrical prose, vivid descriptions of landscapes and nature, memorable dialogue and scenes that are hard to forget. This book has even more of a philosophical bent than some of McCarthys other novels, as many of the people the protagonist meets on his travels (priests, ex-soldiers, gypsies, etc.) engage him in deep

Part II of The Border Trilogy. This wasn't nearly as good as 'All The Pretty Horses', but it was still a powerful novel... then again, why wouldn't it be? It's Cormack!From his home in New Mexico, young Billy Parham decides to take a wild wolf that has been trapped and set it free in its faraway home in Mexico. Billy succeeds in setting the lobo free, but not like he intended. Because at that juncture there was an unseen obstacle in his path... there was 'A Crossing'. I think the title is

The second volume of Cormac McCarthys magisterial Border Trilogy, The Crossing, introduces one of McCarthys most intriguing characters, Billy Parham, a teenager living with his family on a ranch in New Mexico in the 1940s. The novel opens with a haunting scene when an Indian meets up with Billy and his younger brother Boyd and asks them to retrieve food for him from their familys house. Billy agrees, but the scene is loaded with tension and dangerand Billys act of generosity sets in motion a

One decision, as innocent as it may be, can fuck up your life forever. Now, you can live in fear and hide yourself away, or you can keep making those decisions and hope for the best, and if and when the shit hits the fan, you can stand strong and push on.That's life. That's The Crossing.Cormac McCarthy's "The Border" trilogy is where you'll find dusty plains, hard living, and a recent past populated by a people still living in an even more distant past. His characters are full of character,

The Crossing (1994) is the second part in Cormac McCarthys monumental, much revered and critically acclaimed border trilogy (preceded by All The Pretty Horses and followed by Cities of The Plain).The Crossing tells the story of one Billy Parham and opens with Billys attempted quest to return a trapped and injured wolf to Mexico from whence it came. This is a dark, powerful and poetic book and it is hard to capture or encapsulate the essence of The Crossing any better than the quote on the book

Enormously affecting. A boy and his father set out to trap a wolf that is preying on their cattle. The man who had trapped them in the past, who opened the plains for countless thousands of cattle to graze is now dead, and the wolves have begun to return to their old hunting grounds from their retreat in Mexico. The father and son try to take up the trapping in the manner of the past master. The Crossing is about many things: the three journeys over four years into Mexico taken by the young

The Crossing is an astonishing book, more downbeat than All the Pretty Horses, yet not as bleak as the likes of Blood Meridian, it is a sprawling coming-of-age tale filled with moments of beauty and sorrow. The descriptions are as beautiful as anything Cormac McCarthy writes, the action is sparse but nailbiting when it comes and the characters are brilliantly realised. There are moments when the book lags but whenever this happens you can be assured that within a couple of pages McCarthy will