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Author McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-

Title The crossing / by Cormac McCarthy
Edition First edition
Published New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1994

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Description 425 pages ; 22 cm
Series The Border trilogy ; v. 2
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- Border trilogy ; v. 2
Summary 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
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
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
Notes Volume two of The border trilogy
Subject Boys -- Fiction.
Boys -- New Mexico -- Hidalgo County -- Fiction.
Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.
Human-animal relationships -- New Mexico -- Hidalgo County -- Fiction.
Wilderness areas -- Fiction.
Wilderness areas -- New Mexico -- Hidalgo County -- Fiction.
Wolves -- Fiction.
Wolves -- New Mexico -- Hidalgo County -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Hidalgo County (N.M.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81124746 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
New Mexico -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108357
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- Border trilogy; v. 2
LC no. 94004281
ISBN 0394574753