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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Modern Library) |  | Author: Cormac McCarthy
Creator: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Modern Library
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 35906
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 1
ISBN: 0679641041
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679641049
ASIN: 0679641041
Publication Date: January 2, 2001
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Amazon.com Review
"The men as they rode turned black in the sun from the blood on their clothes and their faces and then paled slowly in the rising dust until they assumed once more the color of the land through which they passed." If what we call "horror" can be seen as including any literature that has dark, horrific subject matter, then Blood Meridian is, in this reviewer's estimation, the best horror novel ever written. It's a perverse, picaresque Western about bounty hunters for Indian scalps near the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s--a ragged caravan of indiscriminate killers led by an unforgettable human monster called "The Judge." Imagine the imagery of Sam Peckinpah and Heironymus Bosch as written by William Faulkner, and you'll have just an inkling of this novel's power. From the opening scenes about a 14-year-old Tennessee boy who joins the band of hunters to the extraordinary, mythic ending, this is an American classic about extreme violence.
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"The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner," writes esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition. "I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable."
Cormac McCarthy's masterwork, Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians and sell those scalps. Loosely based on fact, the novel represents a genius vision of the historical West, one so fiercely realized that since its initial publication in 1985 the canon of American literature has welcomed Blood Meridian to its shelf.
"A classic American novel of regeneration through violence," declares Michael Herr. "McCarthy can only be compared to our greatest writers."
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| Customer Reviews:
 A must-read July 6, 2010
R. MacKinnon (Tallahassee, FL)
I've read this book twice now. It is relentlessly grim and it is a difficult read. Female characters are an afterthought (this is McCarthy, after all), and the only "romance" comes courtesy of implied child molestation. There is also quite a bit of Spanish dialogue, same as the "Border Trilogy."
However, I found the book immensely rewarding. There are numerous scenes that are beautifully depicted. Many bits of dialogue are quoteworthy, just great insightful ruminations on the nature of man. I highly recommend reading "Notes on Blood Meridian" afterwards. You'll be surprised at how many of the scenes he depicts in the book actually happened.
Again, it's a difficult read, but I found it very enriching. A new American classic.
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