When the New York Times published the first print interview with
Cormac McCarthy in 1992, the author was barely known outside a
small group of academics, writers, and devoted readers. None of his
books up to that point, among them Suttree and Blood Meridian, had
sold more than five thousand copies in hardcover. But that same
year McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses made the best-seller lists,
and over the next two decades, with the publication of such books
as No Country for Old Men, the basis for the Coen brothers'
Oscar-winning film, and The Road, a Pulitzer Prize winner and an
Oprah's Book Club selection, McCarthy became a household name. In
Cormac McCarthy's Literary Evolution, Daniel Robert King traces
McCarthy's journey from cult figure to literary icon. Drawing
extensively on McCarthy's papers and those of Albert Erskine, his
editor and devoted advocate at Random House, as well as the latest
in McCarthy scholarship, King investigates the changes that
McCarthy's work as a novelist, his writing methods, and the
reception of his novels, both inside and outside the publishing
industry, have undergone over the course of his career. Taking
several of McCarthy's major novels as case studies, King explores
the lengthy process of their composition through multiple drafts
and revisions, the signal contributions of the author's agents and
publishers, and McCarthy's growing confidence as a writer who is
strongly attentive to tone and repeated metaphors and images. This
work also reveals the wide range of McCarthy's reading and
research, especially of historical and scientific materials, as
well as key intertextual connections between the novels. Part
literary biography, part archival investigation, and part study of
print culture, this book is particularly revealing of how one
talented writer, properly nurtured by dedicated allies, went on to
gain a huge measure of recognition and respect, which has become
increasingly difficult for serious authors to achieve in today's
profit-driven publishing world.
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