The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Vereen M. Bell
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Writing, Novelists, Literary criticism
Cormac McCarthy is the author of five novels: The Orchard Keeper (1965), Outer Dark (1968), Child of God (1973), Suttree (1979), and Blood Meridian: Or, The Evening Redness in the West (1985). All were published by Random House, but none has achieved very much public notice. Indeed, according to Vereen M. Bell in his ground-breaking study of McCarthy, these novels have sold in the neighborhood of only fifteen thousand copies altogether in their hardback editions. Yet Random House has continued to publish him, and his books are also available in...
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