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Cormac McCarthy's first novel, The Orchard Keeper, won the William Faulkner Award. His other books - Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, and Blood Meridian - have drawn a cult readership and the praise of such writers as Annie Dillard and Shelby Foote. "There are so many people out there who seem to have a hunger to know more about McCarthy's work, " says McCarthy scholar Vereen Bell. Helping to satisfy such a need, this collection of essays, one of the few critical studies of Cormac McCarthy, introduces his work and lays the groundwork for study of an important but underrecognized American novelist, winner in 1992 of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses. The essays explore McCarthy's historical and philosophical sources, grapple with the difficult task of identifying the moral center in his works, and identify continuities in his fiction. Included too is a bibliography of works by and about him. As they reflect critical perspectives on the works of this eminent writer, these essays afford a pleasing introduction to all his novels and his screenplay, "The Gardener's Son."

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy
• Author: Edwin T. Arnold, Dianne C. Luce
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9781578061051
• ISBN: 1578061059
• ID: 04821914
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Weight: 424 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 176 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1999

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