Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism

<p>This overview of McCarthy’s published work to date including: the short stories he published as a student his novels stage play and TV film script locates him as a icocolastic writer engaged in deconstructing America’s vision of itself as a nation with an exceptionalist role in the world. </p><p>Introductory chapters outline his personal background and the influences on his early years in Tennessee whilst each of his works is dealt with in a separate chapter listed in chronological order of publication. </p>