The Crossing Author: Cormac McCarthy Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc ISBN-10: 0394574753
ISBN-13: 9780394574752 Subject: Science Fiction
Publication Year: 1994 Topic: --
Special Attributes: -- Language: English
Condition: Good
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Following All the Pretty Little 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. And so
Billy sets forth at the age of sixteen on an unwitting journey into the souls of boys and 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, singly
and together, is in extraordinary panoply of fiestas and circuses, dogs and horses and hawks,
pilgrims and revolutionaries, grand haciendas and forlorn cantinas, bandits and 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.