Blood Meridian

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Cormac McCarthy

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.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsBased 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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Author

Cormac McCarthy

Pages

368

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published Date

2010-08-11

ISBN

0307762521 9780307762528

Ratings

Google: 4

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"“Anything that exists without my knowledge exists without my consent” may be one of the most evil lines in all of literature— somehow more evil than “war is god”, which is uttered by the same character. a deeply moving, deeply ugly book. RIP to one of the best to ever do it "

"While this novel follows the life of a boy growing into adulthood alongside a group of disgusting and vile men, it’s true intent is to show an insight to the life of a victim of a truly evil force that goes by the name of The Judge. Some say there is a balance between good and bad, however this book does not follow the idea of using a scale. I give fair warning to anyone looking to read this story, this is a tale of how dark manhood can be."

Taylor Kroeger

"Absolute dark and tragic masterpiece "

Visual

"Genuinely ******* terrifying"

Helicase

"1. Black Jackson. 2. Is a toss up between the ex priest and the kid. "

Jeremy

"Not my cup of tea, not just for the nature of the content but I also found it extremely hard to read (colloquial language, paragraphs that seemingly go nowhere)."

M D

"Very wholesome coming of age story 👍"

Mr. Whatsitoya

"Evil evil evil, but beautifully so."

Zak

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Stephen Colbert

"It's a challenging read. There are no quotation marks. Trying to decipher dialogue from narration is difficult. I was not prepared for the casual racism throughout the book, so be aware of that before you read it. Unlike any book I've ever encountered. Every character is despicable in their own way, so don't expect to root for any protagonists."