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.'' Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it trac
Blood Meridian : Or the Evening Redness in the West
โ Scribed by Cormac McCarthy
- Book ID
- 112277380
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 636 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780679728757
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โฆ Synopsis
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONโข From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road: a****n 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, Blood Meridian 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.
Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels,The Passenger and Stella Maris.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
"The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner," writes esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition. "I venture that no other living Ameri
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.''ย ย Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it tra
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.''ย ย Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it tra
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.'' Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it tra