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Book SynopsisNovelist Cormac McCarthy’s brilliant and challenging work demands deep engagement from his readers. In Cormac McCarthy’s House, author, painter, photographer, and actor-director Peter Josyph draws on a wide range of experience to pose provocative, unexpected questions about McCarthy’s work, how it is achieved, and how it is interpreted.
As a visual artist, Josyph wrestles with the challenge of rendering McCarthy’s former home in El Paso as a symbol of a great writer’s workshop. As an actor and filmmaker, he analyzes the high art of Tommy Lee Jones in The Sunset Limited and No Country for Old Men. Invoking the recent suicide of a troubled friend, he grapples with the issue of “our brother’s keeper” in The Crossing and The Sunset Limited. But for Josyph, reading the finest prose-poet of our day is a project into which he invites many voices, and his investigations include a talk with Mark Morrow a
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…for experienced practitioners and well-read fans it unlocks dynamic, disparate terrain. An engaging addition to the ongoing McCarthy conversation, the book is surprising and unique in the best possible ways. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *
Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Part One: Excursions and Exchanges
- Judging Blood Meridian Or The Evening Redness in the West by Its Cover
- A Walk with Wesley Morgan through Suttree's Knoxville
- Believing in The Sunset Limited: A Talk with Tom Cornford on Directing McCarthy
- "Now Let's Talk about The Crossing": An Exchange with Marty Priola
- Part Two: The Author as Visual Motif
- Cormac McCarthy's House: A Memoir
- Chapter One: Resolution 158
- Chapter Two: Finding the Where
- Chapter Three: Collaborating with God
- Chapter Four: Because the Easel Rocks
- Chapter Five: San Jacinto Plaza
- Chapter Six: Cormac McCarthy's House
- Epilogue: Two Hemingways
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Acknowledgments
- Index
