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
1992-05-05
ISBN
0679728759 9780679728757
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Sara Ann
"A relentless adventure into the harsh landscapes of the Wild West, Cormac McCarthy’s brilliant work of fiction remains my unchallenged favorite novel of all time."
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"Reads like a film. "
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Mack thomas
"Reads like a Western Odysseus full of allegory and violence. Literary masterwork. "
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