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THE CROSSING COLLECTION EDITION - CORMAC MCCART...

Set along the US-Mexcio border of the 1940s  Cormac McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy
continues with The Crossing   a coming-of-age western set parallel to the events of All the
Pretty Horses .  'McCarthy speaks to us in the thrilling  apocalyptic tones of an Old Testament
prophet' - Sunday Telegraph   Sixteen-year-old Billy Parham and his younger brother Boyd are
fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family's property. Billy captures the
animal but  rather than kill it  sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it
to from where it came.  On his return  he will find himself - and his world - irrevocably
changed. His innocence lost at a cruel price  the desolate beauty of the border will beckon
once again . . .   ' The Crossing is like a river in full spate: beautiful and dangerous' - The
Times   'Nominally Westerns  these books are too entropic and philosophical to fit within the
limits of the genre.' - Rachel Kushner  author of The Mars Room    The Crossing is the second
volume in the Border Trilogy. It is preceded by All the Pretty Horses and followed by Cities of
the Plain .   Praise for Cormac McCarthy:  'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse 
his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright  author of The Green Road and The Wren 
The Wren   'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality  hallucinatory in its effect and
evangelical in its power' - Stephen King  author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series 
'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose  [McCarthy] showed readers the
necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie Proulx  author of Brokeback Mountain    Part of
the Picador Collection  a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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