Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-167) and index.
Contents
The shape of a career -- New beginnings for Southern fiction: The orchard keeper and Outer dark -- Postmodern outcasts and alienation: Child of God and Suttree -- Rewriting the Southwest: Blood meridian as a revisionary western -- The border trilogy: individualism, history, and cultural crossings -- The rhetoric of McCarthy's fiction: style, visionary landscapes, and parables.
