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THE CROSSING : The Border Trilogy, Volume Two
by McCarthy, Cormac
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0394574753
- ISBN 13
- 9780394574752
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About This Item
New York, NY: Borzoi/Alfred A Knoff, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. New/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1994 First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/a whisper of discoloration & faint creasing to front inner flap. Trace brown spotting (acidic paper reaction to front & rear endpapers. Upper text edge dyed red. Historical novel of New Mexico and Mexico. Volume Two of Cormac McCarthy's (1933-2023) THE BORDER TRILOGY (following All the Pretty Horses of 1992, and before Cities of the Plain of 1998) in which Billy & Boyd are but boys, and World War II is yet to be. 16 year-old Billy Parham captures a pregnant she-wolf --- of the variety attacking New Mexico cattle; the two journey to re-settle her back Mexican mountains. In the 2nd "crossing", Billy & younger brother Boyd travel south to recover horses stolen from their family's farm --- Boyd is shot, nursed to health, to disappear w/a girl. "Crossing" 3 narrates Billy's attempt to track down his lost brother. 426 pgs in 4 parts.
Synopsis
The Crossing is the seventh novel by author Cormac McCarthy, and the second in The Border Trilogy, after All The Pretty Horses . The Crossing , takes place before and during the Second World War and focuses on teenage cowboy Billy Parham and his family, following Parham on a journey to return a she-wolf to her home in the northern Mexican mountains. The novel is noted as more melancholic than All the Pretty Horses , although not as dark as McCarthy's previous work.
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- Title
- THE CROSSING : The Border Trilogy, Volume Two
- Author
- McCarthy, Cormac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394574753
- ISBN 13
- 9780394574752
- Publisher
- Borzoi/Alfred A Knoff
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1994
- Pages
- 426
- Keywords
- Fiction, Literature, New Mexico, Historical Novel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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