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'''''The Crossing''''' (ISBN 0-394-57475-3) is a [[novel]] by prize-winning [[United States|American]] author [[Cormac McCarthy]], published in [[1994 in literature|1994]] by [[Alfred A. Knopf]]. The story is the second installment of McCarthy's "[[The Border Trilogy|Border Trilogy]]".
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==Plot introduction==
Like its predecessor, ''[[All the Pretty Horses (novel)|All the Pretty Horses]]'', it is a [[Bildungsroman|coming-of-age novel]] set on the border between the southwest [[United States]] and [[Mexico]]. The plot takes place before and during the [[Second World War]], and focuses on the life of Billy Parham, the [[protagonist]], a [[teenage]] [[cowboy]], his family and his younger brother Boyd. The story tells of three journeys taken from [[New Mexico]] to Mexico. It is noted for being a more melancholic novel than the first of the trilogy, without returning to the hellish bleakness of McCarthy's early novels.
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/book-review--long-shadows-passing-the-crossing--cormac-mccarthy-picador-1499-1378928.html |title=Long shadows passing: 'The Crossing' |accessdate=22 May 2010 |author=Quinn, A. |publisher=[[The Independent]] |date=27 August 1994}}</ref>
Most of the protagonists being people of few words, the dialogues are few and concise. In addition, since much of the interaction is with [[Mexican people]], many parts of dialogues are in untranslated [[Mexican Spanish|Spanish]].
Although the novel is neither satirical nor humorous, its realistic portrayal of an often destitute hero taking part in a series of loosely connected quests in a brutal, corrupt world gives it many of the qualities of a [[Picaresque_novel|picaro]].
==Plot summary==
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