This overview of McCarthy's published work to date, including: the short stories he published as a student, his novels, stage play and TV film script, locates him as a icocolastic writer, engaged in deconstructing America's vision of itself as a...
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This overview of McCarthy's published work to date, including: the short stories he published as a student, his novels, stage play and TV film script, locates him as a icocolastic writer, engaged in deconstructing America's vision of itself as a nation with an exceptionalist role in the world. Introductory chapters outline his personal background and the influences on his early years in Tennessee whilst each of his works is dealt with in a separate chapter listed in chronological order of publication
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; PART I: PRELIMINARY; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Personal and Literary Biography; Chapter Three Tennessee Background; PART II: THE TENNESSEE TEXTS; Chapter Four Wake For Susan and A Drowning Incident; Chapter Five The Orchard Keeper; Chapter Six Outer Dark; Chapter Seven Child of God; Chapter Eight Suttree; Chapter Nine The Stonemason; Chapter Ten The Gardener's Son; PART III: THE SOUTHWESTERN TEXTS; Chapter Eleven Blood Meridian; THE BORDER TRILOGY:; Chapter Twelve All the Pretty Horses
Chapter Thirteen The CrossingChapter Fourteen Cities of the Plain; Chapter Fifteen No Country for Old Men; Chapter Sixteen Conclusion; Appendix One The Sunset Limited; Appendix Two The Road; Appendix Three Supplementary Bibliography; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
