The Crossing - Picador Collection
The Crossing - Picador Collection
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4 August, 2022
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Set in the harsh beauty of the US-Mexico border of the 1940s, Cormac McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy continues with The Crossing, a coming-of-age western.
'McCarthy speaks to us in the thrilling, apocalyptic tones of an Old Testament prophet' – Sunday Telegraph
Sixteen-year-old Billy Parham and his younger brother Boyd are fascinated by an elusive wolf marauding his family's property. Billy captures the animal but, rather than kill it, sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to from where it came.
On his return, he will find himself – and his world – irrevocably changed. His innocence lost at a cruel price, the desolate beauty of the border will beckon once again . . .
'The Crossing is like a river in full spate: beautiful and dangerous' – The Times
‘Nominally Westerns, these books are too entropic and philosophical to fit within the limits of the genre.' – Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room
The Crossing is the second volume in the Border Trilogy. It is preceded by All the Pretty Horses and followed by Cities of the Plain.
Praise for Cormac McCarthy:
‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren
'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series
'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781035003747 |
| ISBN10 | 1035003740 |
| Number Of Pages | 448 |
| Item Weight | 312 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 197 x 28 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Pan Macmillan |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
The Crossing, together with its predecessor All the Pretty Horses, towers over most contemporary fiction. An American epic infused with a grand solemnity * Sunday Times *
McCarthy writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read . . . They are stories about people as real as the land they ride and as disturbing as the rituals they enact * Daily Telegraph *
Admirers of All the Pretty Horses will need little encouragement . . . McCarthy speaks to us in the thrilling, apocalyptic tones of an Old Testament prophet. We must treasure him * Sunday Telegraph *
The Crossing is like a river in full spate: beautiful and dangerous * The Times *
Nominally Westerns, these books are too entropic and philosophical to fit within the limits of the genre. They summon the ghosts of history, and haunt the gaps between justice and reality -- Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room
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Author's Bio
Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, Child of God and The Passenger. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country for Old Men – the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of 89.