A Cormac McCarthy Companion
Subtitle: The Border Trilogy
Contributors: Edwin T. Arnold (Editor); Dianne C. Luce (Editor)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781578064007
Subjects: Literature - Classics / Criticism; Mexican-American Border Region; In literature; Mccarthy, Cormac - Prose & Criticism; Literary Criticism; McCarthy, Cormac,; American - General; McCarthy, Cormac; Western stories; Essays; 1933-; Border trilogy; History and criticism
First sentence: By writing three southern novels-The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, and Child of God-which were followed by the atypical semi-autobiographical Suttree, then shifting to the revisionist southwestern novel of collective bloodshed-Blood Meridian-which was followed by a series of three southwestern works conspicuously called a trilogy, Cormac McCarthy has obviously foregrounded the oscillation of his creative work between continuity and discontinuity.