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Blood Meridian:  or the Evening Redness in the West

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Blood Meridian: or the Evening Redness in the West

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Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage, 1992
Random House, 1985
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Book Type: Novel
Genre: Horror
Sub-Genre Tags: Psychological
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An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts 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 the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

Although the novel initially generated only lukewarm critical and commercial reception, it has since become highly acclaimed and is widely recognized as McCarthy's masterpiece as well as one of the greatest novels of all time. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.


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