文档介绍：Cormac McCarthy
MCFARLAND PANIONS
BY MARY ELLEN SNODGRASS
1. August Wilson (2004)
2. Barbara Kingsolver (2004)
3. Amy Tan (2004)
4. Walter Dean Myers (2006)
5. Kaye Gibbons (2007)
6. Jamaica Kincaid (2008)
8. Peter Carey (2010)
BY PHYLLIS T. DIRCKS
7. Edward Albee (2010)
BY ERIK HAGE
9. Cormac McCarthy (2010)
Cormac McCarthy
A panion
ERIK HAGE
McFarland panions, 9
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London
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Hage, Erik.
Cormac McCarthy : a panion / Erik Hage.
p. cm. —(McFarland panions ; 9)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7864-4310-9
softcover : 50# alkaline paper
1. McCarthy, Cormac, 1933–—Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title.
2010813'.54—dc22 2010001951
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Acknowledgments
Any book that addresses Cormac McCarthy’s work must first and foremost acknowl-
edge the author himself, who is providing a seemingly inexhaustible canon for critics to
both muse over and admire. For nearly fifty years, McCarthy, the most resolutely indi-
vidual of contemporary American writers, has plied his craft in a world far from liter-
ary circles, academies, and whatever mode of literature happens to be fashionable at the
time. And like Herman Melville or William Faulkner before him, he has produced pro-
found, ti