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ISBN: 0394574753

ISBN13: 9780394574752

The Crossing

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(Book #2 in the The Border Trilogy Series)

By John Gardner

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Book Overview

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. 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." 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0966563921

ISBN13:9780966563924

Release Date:January 1999

Publisher:University of Rochester Libraries

Length:137 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.8" x 8.7"

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McCarthy proves that he does humorous as well as grim - a review of "The Crossing"

By Thriftbooks.com User, May 20, 2007

Well what can I say. More brilliant writing by a master AND for the first time I found myself laughing -a lot- while reading a McCarthy book. I know you might not believe me, but truly there are some extremely funny bits in this story. [My husband kept looking at me wondering if perhaps I had slipped the dusk jack for "The Crossing" onto another book. ] And alas, lest you wonder, McCarthy was just leading me on. Up,...

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