Blood Meridian
or The Evening Redness in the West
$31.84
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2010
Summary
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a 14-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780330510943 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0330510940 |
| Author: | Cormac McCarthy |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 263g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Picador |
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Critics Review
McCarthy’s achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect … He is a great writer.
Cormac McCarthy’s violent lyric masterpiece, Blood Meridian acquires an amoral, apocalyptic dimension through the Miltonic grandeur of the language … It is a barbarously poetic odyssey through a hell without purpose. * Irish Times *McCarthy’s achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect … He is a great writer. * Independent *A bloody and starkly beautiful tale. – Stephen Amidon * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten acclaimed novels, most recently The Road. Among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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