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The crossing

By Cormac McCarthy

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Book Description

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 WorlContinue

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.

Critics

  • Where the hell?

    Cormac McCarthy comes to us with a tremendous reputation: not only the National Book Award but a critical chorus comparing him to Melville, Shakespeare, Conrad, Faulkner, Dostoevsky. There have also been voices crying hokum, but not many. The Crossin ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

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  • Beautifully written , as always. Not a word is misplaced, or useless, or in eccess.
    Lovable Characters, and a great love and faith in human beings. Some of them, at least.

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    FrancineR said on Oct 31, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • Inconsistent

    This book leaves me breathless. Unfortunately not necessarily in a good way. Some parts of it are just phenomenal: you would want to read them again and again. Some other parts, though, are so dull, slow, meaningless, that it is almost impossible not to toss the book away. It is a roller coaster, an ... (continue)

    This book leaves me breathless. Unfortunately not necessarily in a good way. Some parts of it are just phenomenal: you would want to read them again and again. Some other parts, though, are so dull, slow, meaningless, that it is almost impossible not to toss the book away. It is a roller coaster, and at the end you feel nausea even if you enjoyed parts of the ride.

    As for the story, the book leaves no hope. "Shit happens", could be the brief summary, and there is nothing you can do to avoid it.

    One thing I love about the book is the perfect blend between English and Spanish. I am not sure how they managed to transmit this in translation, but if you can read English and Spanish, do yourself a favour, and read the original version.

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    Demonio Pellegrino said on Mar 29, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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