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Crossing
by Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 0679754342
ISBN-13: 9780679754343
Format: Paperback
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Summary
This second volume of Cormac McCarthy's famed Border Trilogy is set in the 1940s and tells the story of 16-year-old Billy Parham and his obsessive quest to return to Mexico a pregnant she-wolf he has trapped. He leaves New Mexico, setting off on his own, and in the course of this perilous (and doomed) journey he becomes far older than his years. When Billy returns, he encounters a scene of violence and desolation: everything he left behind has been transformed. He strikes out again, this time with his younger brother, Boyd, into the unknown frontier. Boyd becomes a legendary folk hero, then disappears, and Billy's new quest is to find his lost brother. McCarthy has been compared to everyone from Hemingway to Faulkner. This fable-like tale of mythic quests and heroic despair takes on the issues of guilt and innocence, love and violence, and the power of fraternal bonds.
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"'The Crossing' generates an immense and sorrowful power....[It is a] soul-shaking novel."
-- Washington Post
"With McCarthy's white-water prose and fierce, mythic rendering of providence and doom, the comparison to Faulkner is merited and due....[This is] a breathtaking story, told in spare and mesmerizing prose."
-- Boston Globe
"McCarthy has achieved something only a few artists even attempt: He has created his won world...beautiful, nightmarish, isolated."
-- Wall Street Journal
"Sparse and laconic, yet brilliantly evocative...a work that will stand a long, long time and which comes close to the ever-sought, never-reached accolade of 'the great American novel.'"
-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"A masterly display of some of the most pitch-perfect prose being written these days....[A] brilliantly imagined book."
-- Chicago Tribune
"'The Crossing' is a miracle in prose, an American original."
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 1994
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.8 pounds
Pages: 603
Publisher's Notes
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.
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The Crossing ( Large Print )
McCarthy, Cormac
Random House, 1994, 1994 Nr fine large print trade wraps. Almost unread.. Soft cover. ( more information) Offered by Givens Books (United States)
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The Crossing - Large Print Edition
McCarthy, Cormac
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House Large Print, 1994 Hardcopy with paper-covered boards is in VERY GOOD condition. DJ, NOT price-clipped, is VERY GOOD, with new mylar wrapper. Large Print Edition set in 16 point type. Former Library Edition with card pocket inside front cover. No other library markings. I have thoroughly cleaned up the book. 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 New 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.". First Large Print Edition Stated. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Volume Two - The Border Triolgy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue Cloth-Covered Boards. ( more information) Offered by Chozen Books (United States)
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The Crossing - Large Print Edition
McCarthy, Cormac
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House Large Print, 1994. Hardcopy with paper-covered boards is in VERY GOOD condition. DJ, NOT price-clipped, is VERY GOOD, with new mylar wrapper. Large Print Edition set in 16 point type. Former Library Edition with card pocket inside front cover. No other library markings. I have thoroughly cleaned up the book. 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 New 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.". First Large Print Edition Stated. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Volume Two - The Border Triolgy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paper-Covered Boards. ( more information) Offered by Chozen Books (United States)
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