Cormac McCarthy American Canticles

With a thirteen major works over a fifty-year career, one that includes a 2007 Pulitzer Prize, selection for Oprah's Book Club, and Oscar-winning film adaptations of his novels, Cormac McCarthy is one of America's best-selling novelists of the South and Southwest. Cormac McCarthy offers a shrewd chapter-by-chapter reading, exploring concepts such as the Southern Gothic novel, the Southwest border, faith and suicide, and father-son relationships. Respected scholar Kenneth Lincoln shows how McCarthy's canticles of praise, grief, and warning mix classic, biblical, and ballad genres and cross the lyrical with the narrative. Lincoln makes a compelling case that McCarthy is our greatest millennial novelist in a time of heroic challenge and high global stakes.

Kenneth Lincoln is Professor of Contemporary Literature, UCLA. Beginning with Native American Renaissance, The Good Red Road, and Indi’n Humor, he has published many books in American Indian Studies, chaired the country’s first interdisciplinary Master’s Program in the field, and written novels, poetry, and personal essays about Western Americana. His latest books are White Boyz Blues: A Memoir and Speak Like Singing: Classics of Native American Literature.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Headnote Penetrant and Simple: The Common Reader	p. 1
Prologue Western Storykeeper: Life and Times	p. 5
Canticles Down West: Hyperrealism	p. 17
Back to Appalachia: The Orchard Keeper	p. 31
Dark Is a Way: Outer Dark	p. 39
Child of Whose God? Child of God	p. 49
Southern Milltown Script: The Gardener's Son	p. 61
Awakening Frontier Muses: Suttree	p. 69
Go Bloody West: Blood Meridian	p. 79
Theater Grotessco: The Stonemason	p. 91
Vacquero, Ride On: All the Pretty Horses	p. 101
Star-Crossed Cowboy: The Crossing	p. 113
Horse Sense and Human Fate: Cities of the Plain	p. 129
A Sorry Tale: No Country for Old Men	p. 141
Live or Die, Brother? The Sunset Limited	p. 155
The Final Story: The Road	p. 163
Epilogue No End	p. 175
Selected Criticism	p. 179
About the Author	p. 185
Index	p. 187
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