The Crossing av Cormac McCarthy

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<p><b>‘Cormac McCarthy was such a virtuoso, his language was so rich and new . . . McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute. His sentences were astonishing.’ - Anne Enright</b><br><br>-----<br><br><b><i>The Crossing </i>forms the second part of the late Cormac McCarthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, a story that began with<i> All the Pretty Horses</i> and concludes with <i>Cities of the Plain</i>.</b><br><br>Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World War, Cormac McCarthy's <i>The Crossing</i> follows the fortunes of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham and his younger brother Boyd. 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 i