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

"The name says it all - blood. That is pretty much want every minute of this book is filled with. I am going to assume it does has some modicum of historical accuracy, and if so, I am glad that I was not around during the establishing of the West. I will say thought that Richard Poe is an excellent narrator and the only reason I finished a book that I could not figure out the plot of."

Ricki Marking-Camuto

"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)."