The Crossing

Enormously affecting. A boy and his father set out to trap a wolf that is preying on their cattle. The man who had trapped them in the past, who opened the plains for countless thousands of cattle to graze is now dead, and the wolves have begun to return to their old hunting grounds from their retre......more

Far more melancholic than its predecessor All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing is a beautiful if bleak western full of poetry and philosophical musings. The Billy character is wonderfully drawn and in particular the first part of the book with the wolf was outstanding. McCarthy's sparse Hemmingway-es......more

Dobra, powiem tak. Raczej nie lubię bardzo definitywnych stwierdzeń, więc obawiam się pisać, że to jest moja ulubiona książka, jaką przeczytałem od czasu założenia kanału. Natomiast sam fakt, że taka myśl chodzi mi po głowie, pokazuje, co o niej sądzę. McCarthy wszedł z buta i ostro powywracał mój ran......more

The Border Trilogy – Part 2 of 3 It is in the early 1940’s when Billy Pelham sets out on his first of three trips from his home to Mexico. He is sixteen and his first trip is to reunite a female wolf about to pup with others of her kind in the mountains where she came from. When he returns home to New......more