Cormac McCarthy

Sara Spurgeon is Associate Professor of Literatures of the American Southwest, Texas Tech University, USA.

'Fascinating and provocative, these essays illuminate what one contributor calls the "terrible beauty" of three of Cormac McCarthy's best-known and more recent "primal fictions." With Sara Spurgeon's elegant introduction, this collection is both a helpful overview and an in-depth, philosophical and cultural exploration of one of the greatest writers in English today.'

• Series Editor's Introduction \ Introduction, Sara L. Spurgeon \ Part I: All the Pretty Horses (1991) \ Introduction, Sara L. Spurgeon \ 1. "This is Another Country": The Complex Feminine Presence in All the Pretty Horses, Linda Woodson \ 2. Hang and Rattle: John Grady Cole's Horsebreaking in Typescript, Novel, and Film, Stacey Peebles \ 3. McCarthy's Multitude(s): All the Pretty Horses and Los Hombres del País, Andrew Husband \ Part II: No Country for Old Men (2005) \ Introduction, Sara L. Spurgeon \ 4. "Mercantile Ethics": No Country for Old Men and the Narcocorrido, Stephen Tatum \ 5. "Do you see?" Elliptic Levels in No Country for Old Men, Jay Ellis \ 6. Evil, Mood, and Reflection in the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men, Dan Flory \ Part III: The Road (2006) \ Introduction, Sara L. Spurgeon \ 7. "Everything uncoupled from its shoring": Quandaries of Epistemology and Ethics in The Road, Donovan Gwinner \ 8. "Barren, silent, godless": Ecodisaster and the Post-Abundant Landscape in The Road, Susan Kollin \ 9. He Ought Not Have Done It: McCarthy and Apocalypse, Dana Phillips \ Further Reading \ Works Cited \ Notes on Contributors \ Index