Brutally violent, Blood Meridian is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenthcentury American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert border land.It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy#39s reputation as one of the twentieth century#39s greatest writers ndash his magnum opus.lsquoImagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided by Satan, wrote a westernrsquo ndash The TimesThrough the hostile landscape of the TexasndashMexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen yearold Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood.A group known as the Glanton gang hunt Indigenous Americans, collecting scalps as their bloody trophies. At the centre of this violence stands Judge Holden a massive, hairless man, mysterious if not supernatural, erudite and coldblooded. He is singularly extreme in his sadistic violence.But the apparent chaos is not without order ndash the Glanton gang, too, are stalked as prey.Read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form, it is a powerful, mesmerizing and savagely beautiful novel ndash and one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century.lsquoIn Blood Meridian, McCarthy reaches the peak of his style spare and ornate at once, repetitious but endlessly readablersquo ndash GuardianPraise for Cormac McCarthy#39His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power#39 ndash...

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