{"product_id":"the-crossing-border-trilogy-2-9780679760849","title":"The Crossing: Border Trilogy (2)","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - The second volume of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eBorder Trilogy--\u003c\/i\u003eFrom the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize\u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003ewinning novel\u003ci\u003e The Road--\u003c\/i\u003efulfills the promise of \u003ci\u003eAll the Pretty Horses\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ea world where there is no order \"save that which death has put there.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn essential novel by any measure, \u003ci\u003eThe Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLook for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eStella Maris\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eAll the Pretty Horses, The Road, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo Country for Old Men--\u003c\/i\u003ethe latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHe died in 2023.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50584127701266,"sku":"9780679760849","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_db9b291f-b108-4fac-9766-10cf2f33932a.jpg?v=1732033324","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-crossing-border-trilogy-2-9780679760849","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}