The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, Volume Two)

McCarthy, Cormac

ISBN 10: 0394574753 / ISBN 13: 9780394574752

Editore: Alfred A. Knopf, Borzoi Books, Random House, Inc., New York, 1994

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• Titolo: The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, Volume Two)
• Editore: Alfred A. Knopf, Borzoi Books, Random House, Inc., New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0394574753
• ISBN 13: 9780394574752
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Stampa: 2nd Printing
• Condizione: New
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: New
• Peso: 0,66 chilogrammi

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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. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.

Informazioni sull?autore

Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in1933 and spent most of his childhood near Knoxville, Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Air Force and later studied at the University of Tennessee. In 1976 he moved to El Paso, Texas, where he lives today.  McCarthy's fiction parallels his movement from the Southeast to the West--the first four novels being set in Tennessee, the last three in the Southwest and Mexico. The Orchard Keeper (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed by Outer Dark (1968),  Child of God (1973), Suttree (1979), Blood Meridian (1985), and All the Pretty Horses, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award for fiction in 1992. The Crossing is his seventh novel and the second in McCarthy's Border Trilogy.


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