The Crossing
by McCarthy, Cormac
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394574753
- ISBN 13
- 9780394574752
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Bren-Books.com (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5375
- Title
- The Crossing
- Author
- McCarthy, Cormac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0394574753
- ISBN 13
- 9780394574752
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- NEW MEXICO, FICTION. Border Trilogy
- Bookseller catalogs
- fiction; fiction-literature;
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