In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy 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.
MCCARTHY CORMAC
Cormac McCarthy nació el 20 de julio de 1933 en Providence, Rhode Island, Estados Unidos, con el nombre de Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. En 1937 su familia se trasladó a Knoxville, Tennessee, donde cursó estudios en St. Mary's Parochial School y Knoxville Catholic High School. Asistió a la Universidad de Tennessee sin completar un grado y sirvió en la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos entre 1953 y 1957. Publicó doce novelas, dos obras de teatro, cinco guiones y tres relatos breves, entre ellos Suttree, Blood Meridian, The Border Trilogy, No Country for Old Men y The Road. Falleció el 13 de junio de 2023 en Santa Fe, Nuevo México.
