Product Description

VOLUME TWO OF THE BORDER TRILOGY

Set on the southwestern ranches in the years before the Second World War, The Crossing follows the fortunes of sixteen-year-old Billy and his younger brother Boyd. Fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family’s property, Billy captures the animal – but rather than kill it, sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to where it came from.

When Billy comes back to his own home he finds himself and his world irrevocably changed. His loss of innocence has come at a price, and once again the border beckons with its desolate beauty and cruel promise.

'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

'The Crossing is like a river in full spate: beautiful and dangerous' The Times

‘An American epic infused with a grand solemnity’ Sunday Times

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33518 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

About the Author

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.

Customer Reviews

Hemingway for the 90s.
Once again Cormac McCarthy has written a novel that defines its time. Where All the Pretty Horses described the West in the years immediately after WW2, The Crossing travels back to the pre-war period where the Old West is in its death throes. The story of Billy Parnham, and the trials visited on him, is breathtaking and moving, climaxing in a violent manner that no-one can predict. The only drawback in the Border Trilogy novels is McCarthy's over use of Spanish dialogue. For non-speakers this can detract from what is otherwise a superlative read. I can't wait to read the last instalment Cities of the Plain. With the first two books of the trilogy McCarthy has taken his place alongside Hemingway as one of the great writers of the American Novel.

A genuine work of lietrature.
Cormac McCarthy leaves most contemporary writers of the English language light-years behind him in this majestic novel set in Mexico and the American south. Apart from the cowboys and the Mexicans, the true heroes of this novel are the English language and the limpid poetic vision with which McCarthy presents his harrowing view of the world. Beautiful, awe-inspiring, possessed of a moral framework which is required by all truly great writers, this is one of the great books of the 1990s - read it!

superb book
many vivid memories left behind by this book... wolves dancing in snow, the blind man's story... and what fantastic writing style. Never were so many rules of the English classroom broken!