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Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of ...Show synopsisBlood Meridian 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 Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. '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". "I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or as memorable as "Blood Meridian"...A nightmare odyssey" - "Evening Standard". "His masterpiece...The book reads like a conflation of the "Inferno", "The Iliad" and "Moby Dick". I can only declare that "Blood Meridian" is unlike anything I have read in recent years, and seems to me an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement" - John Banville.Hide synopsis
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Cormac is as always an excellent novelist, sometimes overemphasizing the horror of the human condition but always with a purpose. I fear we will repeat the mistakes of the past, present, and future until this past becomes the future.
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This book is a masterpiece in western literature. Set in 1850s southwest Cormac McCarthy does an excellent job of telling the story of a 14 year old saddle tramp who drifts around until he winds up joining up with a band of would be Indian fighters heading to Mexico to fight Apaches but meet their ...
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Cormac McCarthy?s Blood Meridian is a novel that explores and comments on human nature through violence. Its rich and varied characters wend their way through episode after episode that both confirms and undermines the idea that violence and murder are the result of basic human nature. The book?s ...
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The most brutal and truthful account of American westward expansion. The Western as apocalypse; the Old Testament of Westerns. The blood comes thick and fast; the Judge the most charismatic Devil since Milton. Learn to make gunpowder from bat guano, see the motley crusading natives decimate a herd ...
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