The Crossing
by Cormac McCarthy
List Price: $13.00
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0679760849
Publisher: Vintage
Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in 1933 and spent most of his
childhood near Knoxville, Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Air Force and
later studied at the University of Tennessee.
McCarthy's fiction parallels
his movement from the Southeast to the West--the first four novels being
set in Tennessee, the last three in the Southwest and Mexico. The Orchard
Keeper (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed
by Outer Dark (1968), Child of God (1973), Suttree
(1979), Blood Meridian (1985), All the Pretty Horses (1992),
and The Crossing (1994). The last two books are part of McCarthy's
Border Trilogy.
All the Pretty Horses
won the National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics
Circle Award for Fiction. McCarthy is also the recipient of a fellowship
from the MacArthur Foundation, among other grants.
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