The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full.
Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion,Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account of the barbarous violence that man visits upon man. Through the hostile landscape of the Texas-Mexico border wanders the Kid,a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood.
But the apparent chaos is not without its order: while Americans hunt Indians - collecting scalps as their bloody trophies - they too are stalked as prey.
Since its first publication in 1985,Blood Meridian has been read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form. Powerful,mesmerizing and savagely beautiful,it is established as one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century.
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781529077162Number of pages: 384Weight: 273 gDimensions: 197 x 130 x 25 mm
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'McCarthy distances us not only from the historical past,not only from our cowboy-and-Indian images of it,but also revisionist theories that make white men the villains and Indians the victims. All men are unremittingly bloodthirsty here,poised at a peak of violence,the "meridian" from which their civilization will quickly fall.'- The New York Times Book Review
'Blood Meridian is his masterpiece...An astonishing sanguinary epic dealing with the Indian wars of the 1840s in West Texas and Mexico...Unlike anything I have ever read in recent years,an extraordinary,breathtaking achievement.'- John Banville
Cormac McCarthy
Best known for his multi-award-winning masterpiece The Road,Cormac McCarthy was a highly acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter,whose other bestselling works include Blood Meridian,The Border Trilogy,and No Country for Old Men.
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