THE CROSSING. Volume Two The Border Trilogy

Published by New York Alfred A. Knopf 1994

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First Edition, first printing. 8vo, publisher’s original cloth backed boards, in the original illustrated dustjacket. 426 pp. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket, light mellowing to the dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. The second installment in McCarthy’s famed "Border Trilogy" which also included "All the Pretty Horses’ and ‘Cities of the Plain’. THE CROSSING is the initiation story of 16 year old Billy Parham and his younger brother Boyd. The novel, set just before and during World War II, is structured around three border crossings from New Mexico into Mexico. Each trip tests Billy as he must try to salvage something once he fails in his original goal. On both his first and last quest he is reduced (or perhaps exalted) to some symbolic futile gesture in his attempt, against all obstacles, to maintain his integrity and to be true to his moral obligations. This novel explores such issues as guilt, the acquisition of wisdom, heroism, and the crucial importance of stories.

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Title
THE CROSSING. Volume Two The Border Trilogy
Author
McCarthy Cormac
Publisher
New York Alfred A. Knopf 1994
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1st Edition

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