Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy [Paperback]

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-winningNo Country for Old Men, and the Pulitzer Prize forThe Road, McCarthy is entering the mainstream of cultural consciousness, both in the United States and abroad. InAdventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy, Peter Josyph considers, at length, the author's two masterworksBlood MeridianandSuttree, as well as the novel and film ofAll the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's playThe Stonemason, and his filmThe Gardener's Son.

The book also includes extended conversations with critic Harold Bloom about Blood Meridian; novelist and poet Robert Morgan aboutThe Gardener's Son; critic Rick Wallach aboutBlood Meridian; and Oscar-winning screenwriter Ted Tally about his film adaptation ofAll the Pretty Horses. Drawing on multiple resources of an unconventional nature, this book examines McCarthy's work from original and sometimes provocative perspectives. Proposing a new notion of criticism,Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthywill become a useful tool for critics, students, and general readers about one of the great literary talents of the day.

Peter Josyphworks concurrently as an author, painter, and photographer. His fiction, personal essays, criticism, and conversations have appeared inSouthern Quarterly,The Bloomsbury Review,Library Journal,Twentieth Century Literature,Studies in Short Fiction, andThe Cormac McCarthy Journal. He is the author ofLiberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero(2006).Perhaps the next best thing to actually seeingActing McCarthy...is to read Josyph's account of the film inAdventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy, complete with transcriptions, which is perhaps the mailC8