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The Crossing Unknown - 2002
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.
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
Details
- Title The Crossing
- Author Cormac McCarthy
- Binding unknown
- Publisher Books On Tape
- Date 2002-01
- ISBN 9781415918593