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Sorrow's Rigging: The Novels of Cormac McCarthy, Don Delillo, and Robert Stone
Contributor(s): Adelman, Gary (Author)

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 ISBN: 0773539786     ISBN-13: 9780773539785
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
OUR PRICE: $68.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: March 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 813.540
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.5" L (0.79 lbs) 192 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Choice 11/01/2012
 
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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 American lapsed Catholics, born between the two World Wars, who found their voices on the eve of the Vietnam conflict. Their worlds are permeated by spirituality, rage, despair, and self-hatred. He shows how McCarthy creates macabre pageants of hope throttled, while in the Dantesque world of DeLillo's novels, psychopathic characters turn on themselves in an effort to overcome fear of the past. In Stone's work, the characters' rage is turned inward as a form of self-punishment for being a holdout against God. Sorrow's Rigging is a study of panic at the death of hope expressed in novels born of the terrors writers cannot escape, yet in the very act of writing they redeem the world through art.
 
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