The Crossing Author:Cormac McCarthy This is volume two of the Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy. The first volume was "All the Pretty Horses". The back cover of this book contains the following excerpt from the citation for the National Book Award for All the Pretty Horses: In style and scope, All the Pretty Horses, a work of stoicism and singular beauty, is a breathtaking reading... more » experience. Not until now has the unhuman world been given its own holy canon, and never has landscape been so purely and heartbrakingly evoked. This book rides on cold and exhilirating hietghts and is boy heroes have the stature of true myth.« less