The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
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.
Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Cormac McCarthy. (2010). The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Cormac McCarthy. 2010. The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010.
MLA Citation (style guide)Cormac McCarthy. The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010.
Library | Owned | Available |
---|---|---|
Anne Arundel County Public Library | 1 | 0 |
OverDrive Product Record
- readingOrder
- 2
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{83715415-25C8-4ECC-AA7A-FB5960DBB643}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{83715415-25C8-4ECC-AA7A-FB5960DBB643}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/837/154/15/{83715415-25C8-4ECC-AA7A-FB5960DBB643}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/837/154/15/{83715415-25C8-4ECC-AA7A-FB5960DBB643}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780307762467
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 110488
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 110488
- type: ASIN
- value: B003XT60JU
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780307762467
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 110488
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780679760849
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Cormac McCarthy
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- The Crossing
- seriesId
- 521749
- dateAdded
- 2015-07-01T16:59:00Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=51&titleID=392234
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Maryland's Digital Library (MD)
- id: 831
- sortTitle
- Crossing
- crossRefId
- 392234
- series
- Border Trilogy
- subtitle
- Book 2 of The Border Trilogy
- id
- 83715415-25C8-4ECC-AA7A-FB5960DBB643
- starRating
- 3.9
OverDrive MetaData
- interestLevel
- UG
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: TheCrossing_9780307762467_392234
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 2737042
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780307762467
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 110488
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 0
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 8/11/2010
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/837/154/15/CrossingTheBorderTrilogyBook029780307762467.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=83715415-25C8-4ECC-AA7A-FB5960DBB643&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: TheCrossing_392234
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 110488
- type: ASIN
- value: B003XT60JU
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 8/11/2010
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/837/154/15/CrossingTheBorderTrilogyBook029780307762467.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=83715415-25C8-4ECC-AA7A-FB5960DBB643&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: TheCrossing_9780307762467_392234
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780307762467
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 110488
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 8/11/2010
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/837/154/15/CrossingTheBorderTrilogyBook029780307762467.epub
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=83715415-25C8-4ECC-AA7A-FB5960DBB643&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- keywords
- value: Historical
- value: Law
- value: Father's Day
- value: Fiction
- value: westerns
- value: Classics
- value: trilogy
- value: cormac mccarthy
- value: series
- value: The Crossing
- value: fathers day
- value: gifts for dad
- value: border trilogy
- value: sad books
- value: western novels
- value: horror novels
- value: classics books
- value: classic books
- value: western books
- value: fathers day book
- value: grandpa gifts
- value: dad gifts
- value: free western books
- value: All The Pretty Horses
- value: westerns kindle books
- value: cormac mccarthy books
- value: all the pretty horses by cormac mccarthy
- value: cormac mccarthy border trilogy
- value: the crossing cormac mccarthy
- value: the border trilogy
- value: westerns free kindle books
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: McCarthy, Cormac
- bioText: The novels of the American writer, Cormac McCarthy, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men—the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. He died in 2023.
- name: Cormac McCarthy
- imprint
- Vintage
- publishDate
- 2010-08-11T00:00:00-04:00
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- The Crossing
- fullDescription
- NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—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.
Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris. - seriesId
- 521749
- gradeLevels
- value: Grade 4
- reviews
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
Starred review from May 30, 1994
Young Billy Parham, in a horse stall, dreams of his father's eyes, ``those eyes that seemed to contemplate with a terrible equanimity the cold and the dark and the silence that moved upon him.'' Billy could as well be dreaming of McCarthy's prose and the unsparing tone of this, the second volume in the Border Trilogy. The Crossing , following the award-winning and bestselling All the Pretty Horses , is set in the American Southwest and in Mexico, and features, like its predecessor, teenage boys, their horses, a girl and the recurring spectacles of desert days and nights, awful wonders and appalling deprivations, and no small amount of roadside philosophizing. The story of Billy, his younger brother Boyd, the fates of their horses, a wolf, their parents and their dog, set against a vague and distant backdrop of the coming Second World War, throws little light upon a universe without much meaning, though it is in the nature of McCarthy characters to try to anyway. In the end, when the last dog is hanged, so to speak, what survives is the rhythm of McCarthy's open, ropey sentences circling a logic as inscrutable as an animal's or a god's. Although no mysteries are solved, and no comfort gained for these lonely characters, there is that language wrestling to earth all that it cannot know and all that it can. Readers again will be in awe of McCarthy's extraordinary prose attentions--the biblical cadences, the freshened vocabulary, the taut, vivid renderings of the struggle to live. 200,000 first printing; BOMC main selection.
- popularity
- 2558
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L2BaQAAAOQCAAA1L/products/83715415-25c8-4ecc-aa7a-fb5960dbb643/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- 83715415-25c8-4ecc-aa7a-fb5960dbb643
- starRating
- 3.9
- readingOrder
- 2
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{83715415-25C8-4ECC-AA7A-FB5960DBB643}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{83715415-25C8-4ECC-AA7A-FB5960DBB643}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/837/154/15/{83715415-25C8-4ECC-AA7A-FB5960DBB643}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/837/154/15/{83715415-25C8-4ECC-AA7A-FB5960DBB643}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Literature
- value: Western
- publishDateText
- 08/11/2010
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780679760849
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
- NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—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... - sortTitle
- Crossing Book 02 of The Border Trilogy
- crossRefId
- 392234
- series
- Border Trilogy
- subtitle
- Book 2 of The Border Trilogy
- publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- atos
- 5.6
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC019000
- description: Fiction / Literary
- code: FIC033000
- description: Fiction / Westerns
- code: FIC043000
- description: Fiction / Coming of Age