The Crossing
by McCarthy, Cormac
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine minus/Near Fine
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
First edition 1st printing, Fine minus book with couple of tiny rubs top edge page block, in a Near Fine dust jacket that has light, vertical rubs both panels. This copy has been signed by McCarthy on the title page. Two brothers attempt to take a captured wolf to the wilds of Mexico to release it. This is the second book in McCarthy's famous "Border Trilogy."
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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- Bookseller
- Squid Ink Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Biblio8036
- Title
- The Crossing
- Author
- McCarthy, Cormac
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine minus
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1994
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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