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.