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The Crossing

The Border Trilogy Book 2

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The Crossing

By: Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by: Richard Poe
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Sixteen-year-old Billy and his brother Boyd are fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. Billy captures the animal - but rather than kill it, sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to where it came from.

Billy returns, finding himself and his world have irrevocably changed. His loss of innocence has come at a price, and once again the border beckons with its desolate beauty and cruel promise.

©1994 Cormac McCarthy (P)2016 Recorded Books Inc Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural Latin American
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" The Crossing...towers over most contemporary fiction. An American epic infused with a grand solemnity." ( Sunday Times)
"McCarthy speaks to us in the thrilling, apocalyptic tones of an Old Testament prophet. We must treasure him." ( Sunday Telegraph)
"McCarthy writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read." ( Daily Telegraph)
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Billy Parham is decent, courteous and loyal. My wife doesn't like McCarthy. She says that nothing ever happens in his books. Plenty happens to Billy in this one and none of it is good.

This book is really three stories in one. The first is truly magnificent. For me, anyway, the simple ending is the most affecting of any of the McCarthy novels I have listened to.

You certainly do not have to have to have listened to the first book to enjoy this one. It stands apart from the first.

Bad Things Happen To Good People

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a good story but full of pointless tales told by characters met along the way

Enjoyable though long winded

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I found myself thinking about how their lives contrasted so much with what was happening in the rest of the world at the time.

Contrast

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This is by far the best read audiobook I've ever heard. Richard Poe is perfect from start to finish. I think I'd find it hard to listen to anyone else read Cormac McCarthy now.

It Couldn't Be Better

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Cormac McCarthy writes a good story. The second installment of this trilogy is as evocative of the era as the first.
I read the book some years ago but this in no way detracted from the listening, indeed I will happily listen again in years to come. An advantage of reading the book was the ability to flick through pages when the occasional character: Mexican peasant or gypsy present their rambling philosophy of life. We're it not of these interludes I would certainly award the book five stars *****
Time to revisit volume three . . . . just not for a little while.

Epic tale

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