"Josyph takes an aggressively unconventional approach to McCarthy's
work, combining elements of travelogue, interview and memoir." — The
Washington Post In Cormac McCarthy's House, author, painter,
photographer, and actor-director Peter Josyph draws on a wide range of
experience to pose provocative, unexpected questions about McCarthy's
work. As a visual artist, Josyph wrestles with the challenge of
rendering McCarthy's former home in El Paso as a symbol of a great
writer's workshop. As an actor and filmmaker, he analyzes the high art
of Tommy Lee Jones in The Sunset Limited and No Country for Old Men.
Invoking the recent suicide of a troubled friend, he grapples with the
issue of "our brother's keeper" in The Crossing and The Sunset
Limited. But for Josyph, reading the finest prose-poet of our day is a
project into which he invites many voices, and his investigations
include a talk with Mark Morrow about photographing McCarthy while he
was writing Blood Meridian; an in-depth conversation with director Tom
Cornford on the challenges of staging The Sunset Limited and The
Stonemason; a walk through the streets, waterfronts, and hidden haunts
of Suttree with McCarthy scholar and Knoxville resident Wesley Morgan;
insights from the cast of The Gardener's Son about a controversial
scene in that film; actress Miriam Colon's perspective on portraying
the Dueña Alfonsa opposite Matt Damon in All the Pretty Horses; and a
harsh critique of Josyph's views on The Crossing by McCarthy scholar
Marty Priola, which leads to a sometimes heated debate. Illustrated
with thirty-one photographs, Josyph's unconventional journeys into the
genius of Cormac McCarthy form a new, highly personal way of
appreciating literary greatness.
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Reading McCarthy Without Walls
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ISBN
9780292748866
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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