Myth, legend, dust: Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy

This collection of McCarthy criticism anthologizes several of the most prescient early responses to an author who disturbed many when he first emerged, as well as biographical sketches, examinations of his dramatic scripts and his early unpublished stories. For almost three decades, Cormac McCarthy solidified his reputation as an American "writer's writer" with remarkable novels such as his Appalachian Tales, The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, and his terrifying Western masterpiece, Blood Meridian. Then, with the publication of All the Pretty Horses, the first work of his celebrated Border Trilogy in 1992, McCarthy's popularity exploded on to a world stage. As his reputation burgeoned with the publications of The Crossing and Cities of the Plain, the critical response to McCarthy has grown apace.