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Cormac McCarthy
One of America’s greatest living writers, now eighty-eight, returns with a book - a pair of books, together a masterpiece - a decade in the making.
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A chaotically violent and hauntingly beautiful novel from one of the greatest American novelists, Pulitzer Prize-winning Cormac McCarthy.
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‘One of the greatest American novels of this or any time’ Guardian
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One of America’s greatest living writers, now eighty-eight, returns with a book - a pair of books, a masterpiece of a duet - a decade in the making.
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‘Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor’ Times Literary Supplement
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‘A profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society in any time’ Time
A powerful story of two friends growing up in a world where blood and violence are conditions of life.
No Country for Old Men is a compelling, harrowing, disturbing, sad, endlessly surprising and resonant novel’ Robert Edric, Spectator
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, The Road tells the story of a father and son as they journey across…
Set along the familiar bloody frontier of the Border Trilogy, No Country For Old Men portrays a time when drug agents and hit men rule the land. Vivid, thrilling and…
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‘McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters’ Village Voice
Vereen M. Bell, Scott Romine
Now back in print, Vereen M. Bell's The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy was the first critical book devoted to an author who would become one of the most celebrated American…
‘The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature’ Guardian
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‘There isn’t anyone remotely like him in contemporary American literature’ New York Times
At once brutal and tender, despairing and rashly hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, this work is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and…
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One half of the final pair of books from the late Cormac McCarthy, the great American master.
Lydia R. Cooper
Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in McCarthy's literary works. McCarthy's fiction makes a significant case study demonstrating how literature can…
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The masterful coda to The Passenger from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road.
Bryan Giemza
"The first book on Cormac McCarthy's engagement with the natural sciences, paving the way for discussions on both McCarthy's collected works to date and the intersections of the humanities and…
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * The first of a two-volume masterpiece, The Passenger series, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road * The story of a salvage diver…
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road * An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as…
A young boy comes of age in the desolate mountains of the Mexican border, in the second volume of Cormac McCarthy’s legendary Border Trilogy
Volume Two of the Border Trilogy
A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have…
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BESTSELLER NACIONAL * GANADORA DEL PREMIO PULITZER * Una demoledora fabula sobre el futuro del ser humano, destinada a convertirse en la obra maestra del autor.
La carretera, novela galardonada…
Dianne C. Luce
Devotees of Cormac McCarthy’s novels are legion, and deservedly so. Embracing Vocation, which tells the tale of his journey to become one of America’s greatest living writers, will be invaluable…
David Holloway
Through close examination of the formal as well as thematic organization of Cormac McCarthy’s eight novels, this volume offers a radically new assessment of the work of an author who…
‘I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or as memorable as Blood Meridian… A nightmare odyssey’ Evening Standard
Pathobiology of Rare Lung Diseases provides an overview of the pathogenic mechanisms underlying this broad variety of conditions. This up-to-date reference focuses on the molecular mechanisms involved and provides insights…
Ty Hawkins
Situated at the crossroads of literary studies, literary theory, cultural studies, continental philosophy, and theology, the appeal of Cormac McCarthy’s Philosophy is widespread and deeply interdisciplinary.
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Willard P. Greenwood
Chapters include sidebars of interesting information, along with questions to stimulate book club discussions and student research. One of today’s most important novelists, Cormac McCarthy is at the peak of…
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Originally published in 1993, this was the first volume of essays devoted to the works of Cormac McCarthy. Immediately it was recognised as a major contribution to studies of this…
Elisabeth Andersen
This book offers essays from an international team of scholars, providing an introduction to McCarthy’s life and works that will appeal to teachers and scholars. Essays include broad thematic treatments…
Cormac McCarthy’s work is attracting an increasing number of scholars and critics from a range of disciplines within the humanities and beyond, from political philosophy to linguistics and from musicology…
K. Lincoln
This book is a guide to Cormac McCarthy’s canon from The Road to All the Pretty Horses, delving into the dominant themes in his work, his influences from Faulkner to…
Wallis R. Sanborn, III
Examines animal presentations in Cormac McCarthy’s The Stonemason , The Gardener’s Son and short stories, Bounty and The Dark Waters. This book focuses on one text, one type of animal…
Critics have been quick to address Cormac McCarthy’s indebtedness to southern literature, Christianity, and existential thought, but the essays in this collection are among the first to tackle such issues…
This is the Film Tie-In edition of Cormac McCarthy’s much anticipated new screenplay.
