"Blood Meridian" is an epic novel of the violence and depravity
that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting
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 a
nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market
for their scalps is thriving.
'McCarthy's achievement is to establish a new mythology which is
as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has
absolutely the opposite effect . . . He is a great writer'
"Independent"
'I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling,
or as memorable as "Blood Meridian" . . . A nightmare odyssey'
"Evening Standard"
'His masterpiece . . .The book reads like a conflation of the
"Inferno," "The Iliad "and "Moby Dick." I can only declare that
Blood Meridian is unlike anything I have read in recent years, and
seems to me an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement' John
Banville
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