But it is also aworld from which echoes of a common grace resound: as the book ends, the narratorwrites that “after awhile the right and godmade sun did rise, once again, for all and without distinction.”As for John Grady Cole, so for Billy Parham: there is “the world to come,”the phrase from the Nicene Creed that ends Horses and refrains several times during this novel, tempting the reader to believe Cole and Parham may cross paths in the trilogy’s final volume. All three crossings merge into one cross-like experience initiating Billy into a world of suffering. Billy crosses into the “other”world of Mexico twice more, once accompanying Boyd back in search of their parents’murderers, later in search of his vanished brother, whose bones he returns “home” to bury. Also likeJohn Grady Cole, Billy and his “lost”brother Boyd are sympa thetic characters, likable youths holding to a strong moral code (essentially a western one). Reviews 117 cessfully seeks to return-a rare she-wolf to her home in the Mexican moun tains. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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