Description: Frye provides scholars, students, and general readers alike with a clearly argued foundational examination of McCarthy's novels in their historical and literary contexts as an ideal roadmap illuminating the author's work as it charts the dark and mythic topography of the American frontier.
Brief description: President of the Cormac McCarthy Society, Steven Frye is a professor of American literature at California State University, Bakersfield, the author of Historiography and Narrative Design in the American Romance: A Study of Four Authors, and the editor of Critical Insights: Poe's Tales and Critical Insights: Poe's Poetry.
Review Quotes:
Frye offers an excellent synthesis of all McCarthy's novels and a significant overview of the man himself as a means of understanding his creative output.... Anyone wishing to understand the significance of McCarthy and the aesthetic transformation of his work over the years will find this a foundational work.
-- "Choice"