 Lead to Hell: Harlan Ellison, Cormac McCarthy, and the Bitter End of the American Dream". Edited by Joseph Francavilla, the latest book from US publisher Salem Press explores the work of one of the pre-eminent American writers of the past fifty years. My chapter compares and contrasts Ellison's post-apocalyptic stories "A Boy and His Dog" and "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" with McCarthy's Pulitzer- Prize-Winning novel The Road, and discusses the tradition of the Last Man in literature. From the Salem Press website: "Essays discuss Ellison's relationship with the science fiction and fantasy community, his sense that mainstream critics slighted his work because it was identified with genre fiction or popular fiction, his easy post- modern accommodation of popular culture references and images, and his ambiguous standing in the literary establishment." Critical Insights: Harlan Ellison is available from Amazon. |
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