Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Violence and Space
2. Discovering Fourthspace in Appalachia: Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God
3. Russell Banks’s Affliction: “All Those Solitary Dumb Angry Men”
4. Of Vultures, Eyeballs, and Parrots: Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle
5. The Myth of the Boatright Men: Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina
6. Playing for Death: Don DeLillo’s End Zone
7. Drifting through Urantia: Greyhound Space in Denis Johnson’s Angels
8. The Return of John Smith: Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer
9. “The Battle of Bob Hope” and “The Great Elephant Zap”: Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers
10. “I Hope You Didn’t Go into Raw Space without Me”: Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho
11. Violence and Family Structures
Notes
Works Cited
Index