Blood Meridian
Or the Evening Redness in the West
McCarthy, Cormac
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BOOK SUMMARY
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."Â Â Based on historical events that took place on the
BOOK SYNOPSIS
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."Â Â 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.
BOOK REVIEWS
"McCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestlyenvied."
Ralph Ellison
"McCarthy is a born narrator, and his writing has, line by line, the stab of actuality. He is here to stay."
Robert Penn Warren
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0679728759
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679728757
Copyright: 1992
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: 91050742
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): 0.65
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