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Blood Meridian, Or, The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (1992, Paperback, Reissue) 
Blood Meridian, Or, The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (1992, Paperback, Reissue)

 
Blood Meridian, Or, The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (1992, Paperback, Reissue)

Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1992-05-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0679728759
ISBN-13: 9780679728757
Product ID: EPID293499
Description: Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN is an epic nightmare of a novel. Set in the 1850s on the Tex-Mex border, it is about a 14-year-old runaway--known only as "the kid"--who comes of age in a brutal culture. Joining up with a gang of Indian-...
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Synopsis
Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN is an epic nightmare of a novel. Set in the 1850s on the Tex-Mex border, it is about a 14-year-old runaway--known only as "the kid"--who comes of age in a brutal culture. Joining up with a gang of Indian-killers, the kid learns to kill Apaches for bounty. Barely escaping with his life from a group bent on revenge, he takes up with a larger-than-life figure called Judge Holden, a truly vicious man who represents all that is evil in humanity. In the end, it's the kid vs. the judge: only one will survive. The kid's journey through a landscape fraught with violence and horror is a kind of satire of the traditional literary epic quest, and an allegory of the transformation of the American west as it became increasingly despoiled by blood, greed, and its own fake heroic grandeur. Considered by many to be McCarthy's masterpiece, BLOOD MERIDIAN reads like an American parable of Biblical proportions, a dire warning for the fate of man.

Details
Publication Date:1992-05-01
Edition Description:Reissue

Size
Length:337 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:10.4 oz

Publisher's Note
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion. Based on historical events, it traces the fortunes of a fourteen-year-old boy who stumbles into a nightmarish world along the Texas-Mexico border.

Industry Reviews
"A classic American novel of regeneration through violence...this is [McCarthy's] masterpiece."
Michael Herr

"The book reads like a conflation of 'The Inferno,' the 'Iliad,' and 'Moby Dick'...an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement."
Independent (London) - John Banville

"A Western that evokes the styles of both Sam Peckinpah and Hieronymus Bosch...McCarthy employs a neo-Biblical rhetoric, a soaring, pulsing...always stirring diction without parallel in American writing today."
USA Today - Alan Cheuse

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