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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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Compelling, and poetic in it's imagery with lots of philosophical observations about life and human nature. Always interesting and thought provoking. There are lots of long passages written in Spanish which can be somewhat confusing, unless you understand Spanish of course. The narrator was excellent.

poetic and philosophical.

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as a Cormac Mccarthy fan, I found The Crossing the hardest to read out of all his other books.
Even more so than Blood Meridian.
The pain was just relentless.

unrelenting

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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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