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Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  toby.neal | Mar 25, 2023 |  Dos adoslescentes campesinos, en medio de un paisaje hostil, irán descubriendo las crueles reglas del mundo adulto, al tiempo que encuentran en la naturaleza el sentido heróico de sus vidas. Natt90 | Jan 31, 2023 | Way too long but some of the passages are among the best, most transcendant writing I have read by McCarthy. (  ) AndrewFink | Jan 19, 2023 | Way too long but some of the passages are among the best, most transcendant writing I have read by McCarthy. ( ) AndrewFink | Jan 19, 2023 | The Crossing is a coming of age story set in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s near the US-Mexican border. It is the second book in McCarthy’s “Border Trilogy,” but may be read as a standalone. It is broken into three sections, with each correlated to one of Billy’s three quests. As the book opens, teenage protagonist Billy lives with his parents and brother on the family’s isolated ranch in the New Mexican desert. He makes three trips across the border, involving a wolf, the family’s horses, and a missing person. None of these quests turns out as planned. During his travels, he gains wisdom through his experiences and discussions with local sages. Themes include guilt, fate, heroism, and the desire to live an honorable life (which he finds to be harder than it sounds). The tone is dark. Billy suffers many hardships. His motivations are not always apparent. Sometimes he just “decides to do something” without thinking it through, and the consequences are dire. McCarthy leaves many Spanish words and phrases (and a few paragraphs) untranslated, so passable knowledge of Spanish is helpful. If you are not a Spanish reader, you may want to keep a translation tool handy. I feel this book is a worthy follow-up to the first book in this series, All the Pretty Horses, which I also enjoyed and recommend. ( ) Castlelass | Oct 30, 2022 |
 Mr. McCarthy, because he is interested in the mythic shape of lives, has always been interested in the young and the old or, if not the old, then those who have already performed some act so deep in their natures (often horrific, though not always) that it forecloses the idea of possibility. "Doomed enterprises," Mr. McCarthy's narrator remarks, "divide lives forever into the then and the now." So "The Crossing" is full of encounters between the young boys, who look so much like the pure arc of possibility, and the old they meet on the road, all of whom seem impelled, as if innocence were one of the vacuums that nature abhors, to tell them their stories, or prophesy, or give them advice. Belongs to SeriesBorder Trilogy (2) Tilhører ForlagsserienSeuil, Points (751) ET Tascabili [Einaudi] (446) Indeholdt i
Efter forældrenes brutale nedslagtning er brødrene Billy og Boyd på jagt efter familiens stjålne heste i Mexico. Det bliver et knugende og planløst ridt helt i takt med deres følelsesmæssige indesluttethed. No library descriptions found. |
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The first crossing with the wolf was beautifully told and would make a 5 star novella.
The second and third crossings had many moving moments (the rescue of the girl, the shooting, the stabbing, the burial) but there were times when the story got lost (especially the priest telling a story). (