Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road: 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, 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.
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For not being the target audience, I still absolutely loved this novel. Mr. McCarthy writing is so beautifully intricate, it really immerses the reader.
Read May 2023
A rough read. I see why it’s a classic and understand the message, but man was it hard to get through. Incredibly verbose and extremely graphic. Glad I read it but wouldn’t read it again.
As a Comedy this book is a 10. As a serious narrative, it’s a 7. Not enough description of the settings for my taste.
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