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The Crossing Paperback - 1998

by Cormac McCarthy


About this book

The Crossing is the seventh novel by author Cormac McCarthy, and the second in The Border Trilogy,  after All The Pretty Horses. The Crossing, takes place before and during the Second World War and focuses on teenage cowboy Billy Parham and his family, following Parham on a journey to return a she-wolf to her home in the northern Mexican mountains. The novel is noted as more melancholic than All the Pretty Horses, although not as dark as McCarthy's previous work.

From the publisher

The second of Cormac MacCarthy's Border trilogy, The Crossing continues the story of All the Pretty Horses.

First line

WHEN THEY CAME SOUTH out of Grant County Boyd was not much more than a baby and the newly formed county they'd named Hidalgo was itself little older than the child.

First Edition Identification

The first edition of The Crossing was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1994. The retail price was $23.00, and "First Edition" is stated on the copyright page. ."The first printing was 200,000, a large printing for a literary work. By the end of the first month, a second printing was run of 25,000 copies.  

One thousand copies were issued with a special signed limitation page tipped in for "friends of the author and publisher 


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  • Title The Crossing
  • Author Cormac McCarthy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 425
  • Volumes 1
  • Language SPA
  • Publisher Picador USA, London
  • Date November 1998
  • ISBN 9780330341219 / 0330341219
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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