The Crossing
by McCarthy, Cormac
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine DJ, with faintest signs of shelf-wear to DJ. Now in an archival Brodart sleeve. Very faint remainder mark to top ed
- ISBN 10
- 0394574753
- ISBN 13
- 9780394574752
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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Synopsis
The Crossing is the seventh novel by author Cormac McCarthy, and the second in The Border Trilogy, after All The Pretty Horses . The Crossing , takes place before and during the Second World War and focuses on teenage cowboy Billy Parham and his family, following Parham on a journey to return a she-wolf to her home in the northern Mexican mountains. The novel is noted as more melancholic than All the Pretty Horses , although not as dark as McCarthy's previous work.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19689
- Title
- The Crossing
- Author
- McCarthy, Cormac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine DJ, with faintest signs of shelf-wear to DJ. Now in an archival Brodart sleeve. Very faint remainder mark to top ed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition, first printing
- ISBN 10
- 0394574753
- ISBN 13
- 9780394574752
- Publisher
- A.A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana, Southwest US;
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- Brodart
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- Octavo
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- Fine
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