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Widely considered Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece and one of the greatest American novels ever written, Blood Meridian is a staggering, brutally violent epic. Set in the 1840s along the Texas-Mexico border, it follows “the Kid,” a teenage runaway from Tennessee who falls in with the Glanton gang—a band of ruthless scalp hunters.
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ISBN: 9781529077162
Book Format: Paperback / softback
Pages: 384
Dimensions: 13 × 2.5 × 19.7 cm
At the heart of the gang is Judge Holden, a massive, hairless, and seemingly immortal polymath who serves as one of the most terrifying figures in all of literature. The Judge expounds a nihilistic philosophy that “war is god,” leading the group through a landscape of horrific slaughter and apocalyptic beauty. McCarthy’s prose is biblical, hallucinatory, and unflinching, subverting the traditional Western to explore the inherent cruelty of humanity.
Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, Child of God and The Passenger. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country for Old Men - the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award f or Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of 89.
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