MASTER WORK OF A MASTER WRITER...The best in the Border Trilogy

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	• The Crossing Cormac Mccarthy Vintage, 1995 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 78 reviews view larger image
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A Western Sorrow.

This is my third McCarthy novel. Cormac keeps astounding me with each page turned. This second installment of the Border trilogy is one of despair and sorrow. It is one of the most heart-wrenching tales I've ever seen upon a page. Once finished, I literally felt huge waves of melancholy all day. I sat and glared at the last page, mouth agape.

A Haunting and Beautiful Book

I'm really not sure how to describe this book, or that it is necessary to do so. It is an adventure story that has many different sections which, in ways, don't even seem to fit together. Certainly, it is mainly about two brothers and their journey into Mexico to retrieve horses stolen from their father's ranch. There is nothing predictable about what happens and some of it is even confusing. Yet it held me and I know I'll remember it for a long time.

I found it to be a very sad book too. Some of the sadness comes from the tragic action but some it is contained in the fatalistic restless of the main character Billy Parham. For most of the book the reason for his pain is unknown and then it comes into view briefly and boldly near the very end. Pay attention for it will give meaning to everything that came before.

After I finished the book I went to the beginning and reread the first few pages.

Reading this book was an experience. And I urge anyone who cares about good writing to take the experience. Read slowly. Let it sink in. You will carry it with you for a long time.

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MASTER WORK OF A MASTER WRITER...The best in the Border Trilogy

I CANNOT SAY ENOUGH GOOD ABOUT THIS NOVEL.
It combines the severity of Blood Meridien with the lyricism of All The Pretty Horses. It is my favorite McCarthy novel and I think about it all the time. You must not deprive yourself of this incredible read. It can be difficult at times but savor it and read carefully and it will fill your heart. I would give it 10 starts if I could.

Great, but sad book

This book reminds me of my childhood, growing up around Bisbee and southern New Mexico. The striking difference between Mexico and America and how this difference affects the human heart. As with most of McCarthy's books this one is worth reading.

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In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth.

In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing, he begins an arduous and often dreamlike journey into a country where men meet ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat-lightning--a world where there is no order "save that which death has put there."

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.

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