A Bloody and Barbarous God

Petra Mundik is a research assistant at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. She has published articles, chapters, essays, and papers on Cormac McCarthy and is at work on a second book dealing with his early novels.

"An extensive journey through McCarthy's later novels, with Mundik as a priest taking the reader beneath the rich and complex surface to reveal the secrets hidden therein. . . . A Bloody and Barbarous God serves as an essential resource and valuable companion." --South Central Review "Provides the most complete elucidation of Cormac McCarthy's complex use of Gnostic ideas that we are likely to see. . . . A Bloody and Barbarous God is a masterful, nearly exhaustive tour de force of scholarship, and it takes its place on the short shelf of indispensable critical appraisals of Cormac McCarthy." --Reading Religion "Wise, carefully researched, and valuable interpretations of Cormac McCarthy." --Southwestern American Literature "Mundik's book tackles the challenging complexity and darkness of McCarthy's metaphysical vision and finds a consistency of vision throughout his novels that is both profound and--in all senses of the word--illuminating." --Lydia R. Cooper, author of No More Heroes: Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy