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Gary Adelman is the author of the recently released Sorrow's Rigging: The Novels of Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, and Robert Stone. In an innovative new reading, Gary Adelman presents these three authors as "Catholic cowboys", renegades, and above all furious parodists of Americana and its larger-than-life mythology, dreams, innocence, and power.
Adelman, who passed away this January, is remembered by his colleague Curtis Perry:
A few weeks ago, I received in the mail a copy of Gary Adelman's Sorrow's Rigging: The Novels of Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, and Robert Stone (McGill-Queen's University Press). This book, which I know to have been the focus of Gary's considerable scholarly energies during the last years of his life, uses the three writers in its subtitle to capture something distinctive about the relationship between cultural pessimism and artistic ambition in the post-Vietnam era United States.
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Gary Adelman, who enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a faculty member in our department, passed away this past January at the age of 76. For former colleagues and students of Gary's who may have stumbled on this sad news here for the first time, I'm including a link here to an obituary that ran in the local paper in January. This makes the printing of his book now at once especially meaningful and deeply poignant: as one family member put it, in a touching and heartfelt memorial written shortly after his passing, "Gary wanted desperately to see [the book] in print, but his body didn't make it."
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