The Crossing

Cormac McCarthy was widely revered as one of the greatest and most influential American novelists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Known for his starkly unique, sparse prose that largely eschewed conventional punctuation, McCarthy wrote masterworks spanning the Western, post-apocalyptic, and Southern Gothic genres. After spending years as a critically acclaimed but commercially under-the-radar author, his career achieved massive mainstream visibility in the 1990s. Celebrated for his uncompromising explorations of moral ambiguity, the beautiful yet unforgiving landscape of the American Southwest, and graphic undercurrents of human violence, McCarthy's works—including Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road—permanently altered the trajectory of contemporary American literature.

Serving as the haunting, magnificent centerpiece of his celebrated Border Trilogy, this 426-page novel presents a darker, more philosophical coming-of-age odyssey than its predecessor, All the Pretty Horses. Set in the Southwestern ranches and the borderlands of Mexico in the years leading up to World War II, the narrative tracks sixteen-year-old cowboy Billy Parham after he captures an elusive, predatory she-wolf marauding his family's property. Driven by an impulsive empathy, Billy embarks on an arduous, dreamlike quest across the Mexican border to return the animal to her native mountains, sparking a trilogy of fateful crossings that strip him of his innocence and entangle him in a lawless landscape of ghosts, sudden violence, and profound loss.

Black paper covered boards with silver titles to the spine. Original dustwrapper with only light rubbing to extremities. Fine condition.