The Crossing. Volume Two The Border Trilogy
by McCarthy, Cormac
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0394574753
- ISBN 13
- 9780394574752
- Seller
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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
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 318140
- Title
- The Crossing. Volume Two The Border Trilogy
- Author
- McCarthy, Cormac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0394574753
- ISBN 13
- 9780394574752
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern first edition; Native American; World War II; New Mexico;
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