Volume Two of the Border Trilogy
Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten acclaimed novels, most recently The Road. Among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
The Crossing, together with its predecessor All the Pretty Horses,
towers over most contemporary fiction. An American epic infused
with a grand solemnity.
*Sunday Times*
McCarthy writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air
and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read . . . They
are stories about people as real as the land they ride and as
disturbing as the rituals they enact.
*Daily Telegraph*
Admirers of All the Pretty Horses will need little encouragement .
. . McCarthy speaks to us in the thrilling, apocalyptic tones of an
Old Testament prophet We must treasure him.
*Sunday Telegraph*
Sixteen-year-old Billy Parham is obsessed with trapping a renegade wolf that has crossed the border from Mexico to raid his father's cattle ranch. By the time he finally succeeds, Billy has formed such a close bond with his prey that he decides to return the wolf to its home, and the two head off into the mountains. Billy returns months later to find that his parents have been murdered by horse thieves. He abducts his kid brother from a foster home, and they ride into Mexico to retrieve their property, encountering gypsies, desperadoes, and itinerant philosophers along the way. Essentially a boy's adventure story written for adults, The Crossing is thematically related to the award-winning bestseller All The Pretty Horses (LJ 5/15/92; ``Best Books of 1992,'' LJ 1/93, p. 54-58.), but it is not a sequel. McCarthy's luminous prose style, spare as the desert landscapes it describes, is almost Beckett-like in its blend of deadpan humor and existential despair. An exceptionally vivid and rewarding novel.[Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 11/15/93.]-Edward B. St. John, Loyola Law Sch. Lib., Los Angeles
The Crossing, together with its predecessor All the
Pretty Horses, towers over most contemporary fiction. An
American epic infused with a grand solemnity. * Sunday Times *
McCarthy writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air
and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read . . . They
are stories about people as real as the land they ride and as
disturbing as the rituals they enact. * Daily Telegraph *
Admirers of All the Pretty Horses will need little
encouragement . . . McCarthy speaks to us in the thrilling,
apocalyptic tones of an Old Testament prophet We must treasure him.
* Sunday Telegraph *
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