The Crossing
The Crossing is a book written by Cormac McCarthy. The book was published in 1996 and is listed under the category. For readers who want to quickly understand what this title offers, this page gives a clear overview of the book, including its description, author information, page count, ratings, and ISBN details.
The full title of the book is The Crossing. When available, the subtitle is , which gives extra context about the theme, focus, or main idea behind the book. According to the available 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 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.
This book has 425 pages, making it useful for readers who want to know the approximate length before starting. It has an average rating of 4.12, based on 226 ratings, which can help readers understand how other people have responded to it.
For cataloging and reference purposes, the ISBN-13 is 9780517168950, while the ISBN-10 is 0517168952. These numbers are helpful when searching for the exact edition of the book online, in libraries, or in bookstores.
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