Jesse's review of The Crossing
The Crossing (Border Trilogy, Vol 2) by Cormac McCarthy
I've read all but two of McCarthy's books, and this is my favorite. Not exactly a sequel to All the Pretty Horses, more the second of two prequels to Cities of the Plain, it begins the story of Billy Parham who, by the time you finish the third book of The Border Trilogy, seems a human being whose fate is to love creatures who are too wild and passionate to live very long. The book is broken into three parts, and the first third is really - and I hate to ever declare anything my "favorite" - some of the most amazing prose I've ever seen.
Where problems seem to arise when circulating McCarthy is in the sparsity of his punctuation - he uses no quotation marks, ever, and few if any colons or semicolons. For his monkish economy though, he pulls off breathtakingly complex thoughts and the occasional brain-twisting sentence, and some people have trouble really catching what he's saying at first. I did. The first McCarthy I read was Blood Meridian, and when I was done I scra...more
Where problems seem to arise when circulating McCarthy is in the sparsity of his punctuation - he uses no quotation marks, ever, and few if any colons or semicolons. For his monkish economy though, he pulls off breathtakingly complex thoughts and the occasional brain-twisting sentence, and some people have trouble really catching what he's saying at first. I did. The first McCarthy I read was Blood Meridian, and when I was done I scra...more
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