Dianne C Luce

Embracing Vocation

Cormac McCarthy's Writing Life, 1959-1974

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Produktbeschreibung

"Revelations on craft from a foundational scholar of Cormac McCarthy. Devotees of Cormac McCarthy's novels are legion, and deservedly so. Embracing Vocation, which tells the tale of his journey to become one of America's greatest living writers, will be invaluable to scholars and literary critics--and to the many fans--interested in his work. Dianne C. Luce, a foundational scholar of McCarthy's writing, through extensive archival research, examines the first fifteen years of his career and his earliest novels. Novel by novel, Luce traces each book's evolution. In the process she unveils McCarthy's working processes as well as his personal, literary, and professional influences, highlighting his ferocious devotion to both his craft and burgeoning art. Luce invites us to see the fascinating evolution of an American author with a unique vision all his own. Until there is a full-on biography, this study, along with Luce's previous, Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy's Tennessee Period, is the finest available portrait of an American genius unfolding"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 158mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781643363547
• ISBN-10: 1643363549
• Artikelnr.: 63987445

Autorenporträt

Dianne C. Luce is the author of Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy's Tennessee Period (University of South Carolina Press) and coeditor of Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy and A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy. She is cofounder and past president of the Cormac McCarthy Society.