First Sentence

"By writing three southern novels-The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, and Child of God-which were followed by the atypical semi-autobiographical Suttree, then shifting to the revisionist southwestern novel of collective bloodshed-Blood Meridian-which was followed by a series of three southwestern works conspicuously called a trilogy, Cormac McCarthy has obviously foregrounded the oscillation of his creative work between continuity and discontinuity."