CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, January 1st, 2006
All is telling.--The Crossing, 155
Cormac McCarthy's readers are unanimous in recognizing him as a great stylist. There is, however, no similar agreement about his message or about what his novels illustrate. In 1995, Nell Sullivan reflected that "[s]ince Cormac McCarthy arrived on the literary scene almost thirty years ago, the critics have been at a loss about how to view his texts" (115). Edwin Arnold summed up the nascent view on McCarthy fifteen years ago saying, "Foremost among the readings found in Vereen M. Bell's The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy is the idea that McCarthy's books ...
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