Books Details
Author : Stacey L Peebles Pages : 256 pages Publisher : University of
Texas Press Language : ISBN-10 : 1477312315 ISBN-13 : 9781477312315
Books Descriptions
Cormac McCarthy is renowned as the author of popular and acclaimed
novels such as Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, and The Road.
Throughout his career, however, McCarthy has also invested deeply in
writing for film and theater, an engagement with other forms of
storytelling that is often overlooked. He is the author of five screenplays
and two plays, and he has been significantly involved with three of the
seven film adaptations of his work. In this book, Stacey Peebles offers
the first extensive overview of this relatively unknown aspect of
McCarthy's writing life, including the ways in which other artists have
interpreted his work for the stage and screen.Drawing on many primary
sources in McCarthy's recently opened archive, as well as interviews,
Peebles covers the 1977 televised film The Gardener's Son; McCarthy's
unpublished screenplays from the 1980s that became the foundation for
his Border Trilogy novels and No Country for Old Men; various successful
and unsuccessful
