The Crossing (The Border Trilogy)

McCarthy, Cormac

ISBN 10: 0679427031 ISBN 13: 9780679427032

Publisher: Random House, 1994

Synopsis

In the 1930s, Billy and his family come to Hidalgo County, New Mexico, where he becomes obsessed with a wild wolf that lives a precarious existence threatened by the region's ranchers. By the author of All the Pretty Horses. Simultaneous.

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About the Author

Cormac McCarthy is the author of the Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain.

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Read by Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt reads Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing.

Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, The Crossing 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

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679427031
• ISBN 13: 9780679427032
• Binding: Audio Cassette