The Crossing: Border Trilogy (2)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—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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Community Reviews
Great as usual. I will say that this one felt a little more like 2 or 3 stories stuck together. It was also notable that there are 4 or 5 major conversations that are really like short stories, self-contained. I had no problem seeing connections between any 2 stories, but they didn't necessarily feel like all of them linked up all that well. I mean they're McCarthy stories, so of course they have very similar tones and generally are dark and have lots of suffering, but the specific themes ... hard to say. The existence of the world apart from man's perspective. The reality of stories. The attitude of god towards the world. The randomness of the world and the multiplication of causes. The radical otherness of the natural world. Borders. And that's just the stuff that's explicitly discussed. Suffice it to say that reading McCarthy, and I would say this novel more than his others that I've read so far, gives you this constant feeling of grasping almost all of an idea but feeling like there is this remainder that keeps escaping. Any way, really good.
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