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The Crossing

By: Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by: Richard Poe
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Sixteen-year-old Billy and his brother Boyd are fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch. Billy captures the animal – but rather than kill it, sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to where it came from. Billy returns, finding himself and his world have irrevocably changed. His loss of innocence has come at a price, and once again the border beckons with its desolate beauty and cruel promise.©1994 Cormac McCarthy (P)2016 Recorded Books Inc Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural Latin American
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Compelling, and poetic in it's imagery with lots of philosophical observations about life and human nature. Always interesting and thought provoking. There are lots of long passages written in Spanish which can be somewhat confusing, unless you understand Spanish of course. The narrator was excellent.

poetic and philosophical.

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as a Cormac Mccarthy fan, I found The Crossing the hardest to read out of all his other books.
Even more so than Blood Meridian.
The pain was just relentless.

unrelenting

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This is by far the best read audiobook I've ever heard. Richard Poe is perfect from start to finish. I think I'd find it hard to listen to anyone else read Cormac McCarthy now.

It Couldn't Be Better

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Cormac McCarthy writes a good story. The second installment of this trilogy is as evocative of the era as the first.
I read the book some years ago but this in no way detracted from the listening, indeed I will happily listen again in years to come. An advantage of reading the book was the ability to flick through pages when the occasional character: Mexican peasant or gypsy present their rambling philosophy of life. We're it not of these interludes I would certainly award the book five stars *****
Time to revisit volume three . . . . just not for a little while.

Epic tale

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Beautifully told.
I’m working my way through the border trilogy. I feel like All the Pretty Horses was a warm up for this.
This book contains many stories within the main story as this is a story of the road & all the tales that come along it. This story is beautiful and heart wrenching.
I’m looking forward to the next one.

Beautiful and heart wrenching

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