iainkelly_writing 's review for:

The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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McCarthy's unremittingly bleak exploration of the US - Mexico border continues. The story of Billy Parham is as brutal and tragic as that of John Grady Cole in All The Pretty Horses. The book is at its best when the story, and Billy, are progressing along their journey, with a wolf initially and a later crossing with his brother Boyd. It flounders a little when things grind to a stop and digress into the stories of others met on the road, but overall another powerful and memorable reflection on the brutality and melancholy of life.