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The Crossing: Border Trilogy (2)
Reader Score
91%
91% of readers
recommend this book
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Mar 14th, 1995
- Pages: 432
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.10in - 1.00in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9780679760849
- Categories: • Literary• Coming of Age• Westerns - General
About the Author
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What people are saying
Enthusiastic dad. Replacement-level husband. Reluctant suburbanite. THE RECALCITRANT STUFF OF LIFE @OutcastPress
When reading, I am in the habit of transcribing into the notes section on my phone any passages I find particularly moving or mind blowing. No novel has come close to inspiring the amount of prose reproduced as Cormac McCarthy’s THE CROSSING. It is an astonishing work. https://t.co/RVcvOistXR
PICNIC IN THE RUINS from @CounterpointLLC. Pater familias. Novelist. Professor of English and Film. Repped by: Sobel/Weber
My new favorite Cormac McCarthy moment is in THE CROSSING where Boyd asks if the vaqueros are going to "drygulch" him and Billy. I'm going to start using that term; I won't be able to stop myself.
“Would you happen to have a Ben Hur 1860? The third edition, the one with the erratum on page 116.” Don’t follow me on Facebook because I’m not there.
@ratemyskyperoom @CecileRichards Based on this being a Texas bookshelf, these are not entirely surprising. Spotted: LONESOME DOVE; Larry McMurtry (1985) ALL THE PRETTY HORSES (1992) & THE CROSSING (1994); Cormac McCarthy https://t.co/Y6u6697ltg
Praise for this book
What people are saying
Enthusiastic dad. Replacement-level husband. Reluctant suburbanite. THE RECALCITRANT STUFF OF LIFE @OutcastPress
When reading, I am in the habit of transcribing into the notes section on my phone any passages I find particularly moving or mind blowing. No novel has come close to inspiring the amount of prose reproduced as Cormac McCarthy’s THE CROSSING. It is an astonishing work. https://t.co/RVcvOistXR
PICNIC IN THE RUINS from @CounterpointLLC. Pater familias. Novelist. Professor of English and Film. Repped by: Sobel/Weber
My new favorite Cormac McCarthy moment is in THE CROSSING where Boyd asks if the vaqueros are going to "drygulch" him and Billy. I'm going to start using that term; I won't be able to stop myself.