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    The Crossing
    The Crossing
    The Crossing
    Audiobook14 hours

    The Crossing

    Written by Cormac McCarthy

    Narrated by Richard Poe

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth. In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing, he begins an arduous and often dreamlike journey into a country where men meet ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat-lightning--a world where there is no order "save that which death has put there." An essential novel by any measure, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 18, 2016
    ISBN9781501927935
    The Crossing
    Author

    Cormac McCarthy

    Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, Child of God and The Passenger. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country for Old Men – the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of 89.

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    • 5/5
      The writing is as good as you get. Incredible author. McCarthy has no equal in English save perhaps Shakespeare...and he’s of another time.
      Cormac is now.

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    • 4/5
      Though episodic, and overtly philosophical at times, Mr. McCarthy brings to life two neighboring cultures of a not-so-distant era--with ever-surprising detail.

      Richard Poe's narration was outstanding.

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    • 5/5
      The extraordinary writing once again through the force and beauty of Richard Poe's reading. Be forewarned there is a lot of dialogue in Spanish so those that know none of the language will miss out on some part of what is said.