He captures the region and era in a dusty, but vivid style.

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	• The Crossing Cormac Mccarthy Vintage, 1995 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 82 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

He captures the region and era in a dusty, but vivid style.

Cormac McCarthy has truly captured the flavor of the Southwest. Although I can't say I "enjoyed" the book, this was a pretty good summer read and not at all predictable. McCarthy's, at times mystical, at times visceral narrative kept me reading. Sometimes the mystical did seem to go on for too long, but all in all worth the effort. I plan to read more of his work.

Western Catcher-in-the-Rye

In the best "coming of age" book since Catcher-in-the-Rye, McCarthy depicts a young man and a country growing up quickly in the harsh reality of the Texas-Mexico border. Easily the best book I read this decade.

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Great tortillas and hunger...

Rich, biblical prose. Gives a great feel for remote, hostile Mexico of the 1800's (and forever?). But where certain civilities are practiced. You might get shot, but if you ride until you're starved you can also ride under an archway into a little hamlet and someone will fry you a tortilla without anyone saying a word. Great shady tequila bar descriptions. Great feeling of a teen getting in over his head and slowly starving while on too long of a ride. Revolutionary chaos description. Only trapping scene in modern lit that I know of. Long, seemingly random digressions...but that also fits the Mexican vibe.

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Excellent

The first half of this book, with the wolf, I rank among the very best, perhaps THE best, most breathtaking prose I have ever read. Vivid. Funny. Heartbreaking. People, characters and detail of place fully rendered with enviable sparse writing. What amazing images and feelings.

The power and brilliance of the first section however, he is, for me, unable to sustain when he leaves the wolf. Still, were ten stars available in the Amazon ranking, I would give this book 10 based on the extraordinary first section.

reviews: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, page 14, 15, 16, 17

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