Following All the Pretty Little Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought. In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on the cusp of unimaginable events. First comes a trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild amongst the cattle lately brought onto the plain by settlers - this when all the wisdom of trappers has disappeared along with the trappers themselves. And so Billy sets forth at the age of sixteen on an unwitting journey into the souls of boys and animals and men. Having trapped a she-wolf he would restore to the mountains of Mexico, he is long gone and returns to find everything he left behind transformed utterly in his absence. Except his kid brother, Boyd, with whom he strikes out yet again to reclaim what is theirs - thus crossing into "that antique gaze from whence there could be no way back forever." What they find instead, singly and together, is in extraordinary panoply of fiestas and circuses, dogs and horses and hawks, pilgrims and revolutionaries, grand haciendas and forlorn cantinas, bandits and gypsies and roving tribes, a young girl alone on the road, a mystery in the mountain wilds, and a myth in the making. And in this wider world they fight a war as rageful as the one neither, in the end, will join up for back home. One brother finds his destiny, while the other arrives only at his fate. An essential novel by any measure, and the transfixing middle passage of Cormac McCarthy's ongoing trilogy, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once.

科马克•麦卡锡（Cormac McCarthy），美国小说家、剧作家，诺贝尔文学奖的热门人选。1933年7月出生于美国罗德岛。代表作有《血色子午线》、《边境三部曲》、《老无所依》、《路》等。《血色子午线》开启麦卡锡创作的转折点，在《纽约时报》评选的“过去25年美国最佳小说”中名列第三。《边境三部曲》引起图书界轰动，荣膺美国国家图书奖和国家书评奖。《老无所依》改编为同名电影，力夺奥斯卡最佳影片等四项重量级奖项。《路》荣获2007年普利策最佳小说奖，据其改编的电影《末日危途》引起极大轰动。这些均奠定了麦卡锡的大师地位，令其由此获誉“当代最伟大的美国作家之一”，“海明威与福克纳唯一的继承者”。