Cormac McCarthy : All the pretty horses, No country for old men, the road / edited by Sara Spurgeon.
Cormac McCarthy's significance in the field of contemporary American fiction is enormous. Harold Bloom has called him one of the greatest living American writers, and named him one of the three most important authors of the 20th century. His impact has been even greater in the 21st century. He...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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London ; New York, NY :
Continuum,
2011.
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Series: | Continuum studies in contemporary North American fiction.
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Genre/Form: | Literature. |
Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Summary: | Cormac McCarthy's significance in the field of contemporary American fiction is enormous. Harold Bloom has called him one of the greatest living American writers, and named him one of the three most important authors of the 20th century. His impact has been even greater in the 21st century. He won the American Book Award for All the Pretty Horses (1991), the Pulitzer Prize for The Road (2006), and his influence on contemporary American literature has been compared to that of Herman Melville, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway, while The Guardian likened the language of The Road to that of. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-205) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781441154811 1441154817 1283122790 9781283122795 9781472542380 147254238X 9781441193001 1441193006 |