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A review by kylestaylor27
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
5.0
“Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes.”
Innocence lost to the hunt, boy turned man through the crossing of the plains and years. Cormac at his most beautifully melancholic, the pages fly past as you are engrossed in the poetry of his brutal realism. The sections of violence is supplemented by passages of genuine beauty and goodness. A somber slice of heart and wonder, reminiscent of Steinbeck’s The Red Pony but for late-teens turning to adults rather than young boys becoming teens. After reading All The Pretty Horses I was worried about the rest of the trilogy not being able to stand up to it, but I am ecstatic to say I was wrong. This is just as good, which is saying a lot as All the Pretty Horses is potentially my favorite of his works.
“He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.”
Innocence lost to the hunt, boy turned man through the crossing of the plains and years. Cormac at his most beautifully melancholic, the pages fly past as you are engrossed in the poetry of his brutal realism. The sections of violence is supplemented by passages of genuine beauty and goodness. A somber slice of heart and wonder, reminiscent of Steinbeck’s The Red Pony but for late-teens turning to adults rather than young boys becoming teens. After reading All The Pretty Horses I was worried about the rest of the trilogy not being able to stand up to it, but I am ecstatic to say I was wrong. This is just as good, which is saying a lot as All the Pretty Horses is potentially my favorite of his works.
“He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.”