SOURCE: "At the End of His Tether," in Washington Post Book World, Vol. XXIV, No. 23, June 5, 1994, pp. 1, 13.
In the following review, Dirda comments on the broad scope of The Crossing, lauding the craftsmanship of McCarthy's writing but faulting the "heavy-handed" and "grandiloquent" aspects of the work.
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