Cormac McCarthy's Last Outlaws - by Peter Josyph (Paperback)

About the Book

"This work is the most extensive examination to date of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's collaboration with director Ridley Scott on realizing McCarthy's controversial screenplay, The Counselor, and it takes an equally close look at McCarthy's final masterwork, The Passenger. Writing as an artist who has tributed in music, painting, film, lectures, and three previous books on the man he calls "our Rhode Island Shakespeare," the author draws on a wide range of sources from theatre, cinema, philosophy, and literature for an unsparing critique of what he calls Late McCarthy, and of trends in recent Cormac McCarthy criticism."-Provided by publisher Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

This work is the most extensive examination to date of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's collaboration with director Ridley Scott on realizing McCarthy's controversial screenplay, The Counselor, and it takes an equally close look at McCarthy's final masterwork, The Passenger. Having interpreted in music, painting, film, lectures, and three previous books the man he calls "our Rhode Island Shakespeare," the author draws on a wide range of sources from theatre, cinema, philosophy, and literature for an unsparing critique of what he calls Late McCarthy, and of trends in recent Cormac McCarthy criticism.

Review Quotes

"Josyph takes an aggressively unconventional approach to McCarthy's work."--Michael Lindgren, The Washington Post

"Peter Josyph has long been an unmistakable figure, a force of nature, in McCarthy circles."--David Cremean, The Cormac McCarthy Journal

"This is literary criticism of the old school: wonderfully well informed by culture broadly, grounded in reality, accessible, and a real pleasure to read."--Nicholas Monk, author of True and Living Prophet of Destruction: Cormac McCarthy and Modernity

"Josyph shows himself capable of discriminating, and even irreverent, contemplation of his hero's corpus.... Forcefully, he makes his case for a canon within the McCarthy canon."--Pat Quinn, London Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

Peter Josyph is a writer, painter, actor and filmmaker. This is his fourth book on Cormac McCarthy. He lives on New York's Long Island.