Sorrow's Rigging: The Novels of Cormac McCarthy, Don Delillo, and Robert Stone

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Through the writings of Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, and Robert Stone, Sorrow's Rigging reflects on the American scene from the outbreak of the Vietnam War in 1965 to the uncertain future. In an innovative new reading, Gary Adelman presents these three authors as "Catholic cowboys", renegades, and above all furious parodists of Americana and its larger-than-life mythology, dreams, innocence, and power. Adelman explores the common inheritance of these...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0773539786

ISBN13:9780773539785

Release Date:March 2012

Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.79 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"

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