Adventures in reading Cormac McCarthy

""Peter Joseph's articles on McCarthy are written in a style that is fluent, erudite, engaging, and imbued with a sophisticated sense of irony and good humor; indeed, they are as hybrid in nature as the work of the writer he is critiquing."--Christopher J. Walsh, In the Wake of the Sun: Navigating the Southern Works of 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 forty years. Through the increasing number of cinematic adaptations of his work, including the Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men, and a 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 Joseph considers, at length, the author's two masterworks︢B︣lood Meridian and Suttree-well as the novel and film of All the Pretty Horses, the play The Stonemason, and the film The Gardener's Son. This book also includes extended conversations with critics Harold Bloom and Rick Wallach about Blood Meridian, novelist and poet Robert Morgan about The Gardener's Son, and Oscar-winning screenwriter Ted Tally about his film adaptation of All the Pretty Horses." "Drawing on multiple, unconventional resources, this book examines McCarthy's work from original and sometimes provocative perspectives. Proposing a new notion of criticism, Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy, will be a useful tool for critics, students, and general readers about one of today's great literary talents."--Jacket

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.