The Crossing, Volume Two of The Border Trilogy

McCarthy, Cormac

ISBN 10: 0394574753 / ISBN 13: 9780394574752

Published by Alfred A Knopf, Inc., A Borzoi Book, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1994

About this Item

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, New York, USA, 1994. First Printing of First Edition (stated with no further printings). As New in an As New Dust Jacket. Appears Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, quite tight, straight and square, with red topstain, deckled fore-edges, and no markings of any kind. The Binding is black quarter cloth to black boards, color uniform throughout, with author's initials embossed in bright gilt on the front board, bright gilt title, etc., to spine and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is flawless - uniformly bright and fully intact with the original prices (USA $23.00 Canada $29.95) intact on front flap and date ("6/94") on rear flap. See photos. 426 pages. 5 3/4" x 8 5/8". The second volume in The Border Trilogy, ISBN 10: 0394574753 / ISBN 13: 9780394574752 We also have All the Pretty Horses and Cities of the Plain for sale.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Crossing, Volume Two of The Border Trilogy
• Publisher: Alfred A Knopf, Inc., A Borzoi Book, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394574753
• ISBN 13: 9780394574752
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought.

In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on the cusp of unimaginable events. First comes a trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild amongst the cattle lately brought onto the plain by settlers -- this when all the wisdom of trappers has disappeared along with the trappers themselves. And so Billy sets forth at the age of sixteen on an unwitting journey into the souls of boys and animals and men. Having trapped a she-wolf he would restore to the mountains of Mexico, he is long gone and returns to find everything he left behind transformed utterly in his absence. Except his kid brother, Boyd, with whom he strikes out yet again to reclaim what is theirs thus crossing into "that antique gaze from whence there could be no way back forever."

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.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author

Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in1933 and spent most of his childhood near Knoxville, Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Air Force and later studied at the University of Tennessee. In 1976 he moved to El Paso, Texas, where he lives today.  McCarthy's fiction parallels his movement from the Southeast to the West--the first four novels being set in Tennessee, the last three in the Southwest and Mexico. The Orchard Keeper (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed by Outer Dark (1968),  Child of God (1973), Suttree (1979), Blood Meridian (1985), and All the Pretty Horses, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award for fiction in 1992. The Crossing is his seventh novel and the second in McCarthy's Border Trilogy.


From the Trade Paperback edition.