Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road: Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction

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

'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.'