A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy

With essays by Edwin T. Arnold, J. Douglas Canfield, Christine Chollier, George Guillemin, Dianne C. Luce, Jacqueline Scoones, Phillip A. Snyder, Nell Sullivan, and John Wegner

The completion of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy-All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998)-marked a major achievement in American literature. Only ten years earlier this now internationally acclaimed novelist had been called the best unknown writer in America.

The trilogy is McCarthy's most ambitious project yet, composed at the height of his mature powers over a period of fifteen years. It is "a miracle in prose," as Robert Hass wrote of its middle volume, an unsentimental elegy for the lost world of the cowboy, the passing of the wilderness, and the fading innocence of post-World War II America. The trilogy is a literary accomplishment with wide appeal, for despite the challenging materials in each book, these volumes remained on bestseller lists for many weeks.

This collection of essays is the first book to examine these novels as a trilogy, the first to read them as an integrated whole. Together these explorations of McCarthy's magnum opus serve as an ideal companion reader.

Represented here are nine of the most notable Cormac McCarthy scholars, both American and European.

Edwin T. Arnold is professor of English at Appalachian State University. He is coauthor of Reading Faulkner: Sanctuary and editor or coeditor of Conversations with Erskine Caldwell, Erskine Caldwell Reconsidered, Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy, and Robert Aldrich: Interviews, all published by University Press of Mississippi. Dianne C. Luce is chair of the English Department at Midlands Technical College. She is coeditor (with Edwin T. Arnold) of Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy, published by University Press of Mississippi.