The Crossing (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Cormac McCarthy
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Antiheroes, Adventure, Mexico or Mexicans, Cowboys or cowgirls, Horses, Wolves
- Locales: Mexico, New Mexico
Set in the years leading up to World War II, the second novel in The Border Trilogy focuses on the lives of two brothers, Billy and Boyd Parham, who are, respectively, sixteen and fourteen at the beginning of the novel and living with their parents in Hidalgo Country, on the border between New Mexico and Mexico. Billy initiates three distinct expeditions across the border, each with its own mission, and each mission is executed, though not in intended ways. As in the other two volumes of the trilogy, the dialogue (portions of which are in Spanish, untranslated) is crisp and...
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