Blood Meridian
Or the Evening Redness in the West
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4.5 • 61 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
One of The Atlantic’s “Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years,” now with a new foreword by Marlon James
Widely considered one of the finest novels by a living writer, Blood Meridian is an epic tale of the violence and corruption that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the “Wild West.” Its wounded hero, the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean, must confront the extraordinary brutality of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians. Seeming to preside over this nightmarish world is the diabolical Judge Holden, one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction.
Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian represents a genius vision of the historical West, one whose stature has only grown in the years since its publication.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Cormac McCarthy plumbs the depths of humankind’s depravity like no one else. In this dark, gritty Old West classic, we follow the violent odyssey of a teenager known as “the kid” through the American Southwest in the mid-1800s. The kid eventually joins the scalp-hunting Glanton gang—whose members include a pale, hairless giant named Judge Holden and an ex-priest named Tobin—who are being paid by the Mexican government to terrorize the territory. McCarthy conjures ornate poetry out of malevolence and pain, and his storytelling makes it clear that no one is innocent. The ending of this brutal tale sparked debates for decades. Pick it up—and form your own opinion.
