Adventures in reading Cormac McCarthy
Regarded by many as one of America's finest-living writers, Cormac McCarthy has produced some of the most compelling novels of the last 40 years. Through the increasing number of cinematic adaptations of his work, including the Oscar-winning No Countryfor Old Men, and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road, McCarthy is entering the mainstream of cultural consciousness, both in the United States and abroad. In Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy, Peter Josyph considers, at length, the author's two ma…
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- Full title :Adventures in reading Cormac McCarthy / Peter Josyph.
Summary
Regarded by many as one of America's finest-living writers, Cormac McCarthy has produced some of the most compelling novels of the last 40 years. Through the increasing number of cinematic adaptations of his work, including the Oscar-winning No Countryfor Old Men, and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road, McCarthy is entering the mainstream of cultural consciousness, both in the United States and abroad. In Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy, Peter Josyph considers, at length, the author's two masterworks Blood Meridian and Suttree, as well as the novel and film of All the Pretty Horses, McCarth.
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- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Scarecrow Press
- Place of Publication:Lanham, Maryland
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vii, 247 p.)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780810877085, 0810877082, 9780810877078, 0810877074
- oclc:ocn984815605
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
Table of Contents
Suttree's war of the worlds: high noon in Knoxville -- Suttree and the brass ring: reaching for thanksgiving in the Knoxville gutter -- Suttree sutured: his short stay in Knoxville General -- Blood music: reading Blood meridian aloud -- Tragic ecstasy: a conversation with Harold Bloom about Blood meridian -- Blood bath: a conversation with Rick Wallach about Blood meridian -- Older professions: the fourth wall of The stonemason -- Getting the voices right: a conversation with Robert Morgan about The gardener's son -- Notes on Billy Bob Thornton's All the pretty horses -- Losing home: a conversation with Ted Tally about adapting All the pretty horses -- How to flunk the final exam on Cormac McCarthy.
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