Penetrant and Simple Western Storykeeper Canticles Down West Back to Appalachia Dark is a Way Child of Whose God? Southern Milltown Script Awakening Frontier Muses Go Bloody West Theater Grotessco Vacquero, Ride On Star-Crossed Cowboy Horse Sense and Human Fate A Sorry Tale Live or Die, Brother? The Final Story

This book is a guide to Cormac McCarthy's canon from The Road to All the Pretty Horses, delving into the dominant themes in his work, his influences from Faulkner to Dante, and the current cultural debates his books have figured into.

KENNETH LINCOLN is Professor of Contemporary Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.