The Crossing - Brossura

McCarthy, Cormac

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0679754342 ISBN 13: 9780679754343

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 1994

Riassunto

In the 1930s, Billy and his family come to Hidalgo County, New Mexico, where he becomes obsessed with a wild wolf that lives a precarious existence threatened by the region's ranchers. By the author of All the Pretty Horses. (General Fiction).

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Informazioni sull?autore

Cormac McCarthy is the author of six previous novels the most recent of which, All the Pretty Horses, won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

l the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought.

In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on the cusp of unimaginable events. First comes a trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild amongst the cattle lately brought onto the plain by settlers -- this when all the wisdom of trappers has disappeared along with the trappers themselves. And so Billy sets forth at the age of sixteen on an unwitting journey into the souls of boys and animals and men. Having trapped a she-wolf he would restore to the mountains of Mexico, he is long gone and returns to find everything he left behind transformed utterly in his absence. Except his kid brother, Boyd, with whom he strikes out yet again to reclaim what is theirs thus crossing into "that antique gaze from whence there could be no way b

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679754342
• ISBN 13: 9780679754343
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 603
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile