Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Paperback
by Cormac McCarthy
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- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0679728759
- ISBN 13
- 9780679728757
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About This Item
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts 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 fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts 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 fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
Review "McCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestly—envied." —Ralph Ellison"McCarthy is a born narrator, and his writing has, line by line, the stab of actuality. He is here to stay." \n \n—Robert Penn Warren
Synopsis
Blood Meridian , or the Evening Redness in the West, is a 1985 Western novel by American author Cormac McCarthy. It was McCarthy's fifth book and was published by Random House. The narrative follows a teenage runaway referred to only as "the kid", with the bulk of the text devoted to his experiences with the Glanton gang, a historical group of scalp hunters who massacred Indians and others on the United States–Mexico borderlands in 1849 and 1850.
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Reviews
Random House, 1985, New York. The genuine American apocalyptic novel, in my opinion, is Blood Meridian, which is still relevant today even though it was published fifteen years ago. As Cormac McCarthy is a deserving student of both Melville and Faulkner, the achieved notoriety of Moby-Dick and As I Lay Dying is enhanced by Blood Meridian. A novel as powerful and unforgettable as Blood Meridian has probably not been written by any other contemporary American novelist, not even Thomas Pynchon "(Harold Bloom). According to Michael Herr, McCarthy's work is a masterpiece and can only be compared to the greatest writers of all time, Melville and Faulkner."
I had also reviewed this book on shabd.in and kindle too.
Both majestic and terrible, definitely one of the hallmark pieces of literature from the 20th century. You won't be disappointed!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Deb's Book Paradise (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27016
- Title
- Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Paperback
- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679728759
- ISBN 13
- 9780679728757
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- . Box J 5
- This edition first published
- 1992-05-05
- Keywords
- fiction, Historical, Western