The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy
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The Crossing

Author: Cormac McCarthy

Narrator: Richard Poe

Unabridged: 14 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/18/2016


Synopsis

In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth. In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing, he begins an arduous and often dreamlike journey into a country where men meet ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat-lightning--a world where there is no order "save that which death has put there." 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by William2 on April 11, 2018

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

Goodreads review by Michael on October 08, 2019

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

Goodreads review by Książkowe on March 21, 2025

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

Goodreads review by Jaline on October 08, 2018

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