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

by Gary Adelman

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"