Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy

Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 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 fourteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

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 *

Cormac McCarthy is the author of many acclaimed novels, including All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country For Old Men. Among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

SKU	GOR001863653
ISBN 13	9780330510943
ISBN 10	0330510940
Title	Blood Meridian
Author	Cormac Mccarthy
Condition	Very Good
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2010-01-01
Number of pages	368
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