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Title	:	Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Author	:	Cormac McCarthy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 337 pages
Published	:	May 1992 by Vintage Books (first published April 28th 1985)
Categories	:	Poetry. Spirituality. Classics. Philosophy. Religion

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An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts 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 the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Publisher's Note: The 25th Anniversary Edition has been reset, causing the text to reflow. Page references based on earlier editions will no longer apply, so Vintage Books has compiled the following chart as a conversion aid. Download the chart by copying and pasting the following link into your browser: http://knopfdoubleday.com/marketing/B...

Present Books Conducive To Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Original Title:	Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
ISBN:	0679728759 (ISBN13: 9780679728757)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	The kid, Judge Holden, Louis Toadvine, Captain White, John Joel Glanton, Benjamin Tobin, David Brown, John Jackson
Setting:	Mexico Texas,1850(United States)

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Cormac McCarthys Blood Meridian is unquestionably the most violent novel Ive ever read. Its also one of the best.For those who would consider that a turn-off, I offer this caveat:For the overwhelming majority of fiction that involves a lot of violence, the violence itself is an act of masturbation representing either the authors dark impulse or, perhaps worse, pandering to the readers similar revenge fantasies (this might explain why the majority of Blood Meridian fans I know personally are men,

After reading it through, I left it on my nightstand and would read random chapters for a few months before going to bed. Still amazing. IMO, his best

In the old west, a young man falls in with a bad crowd, scalphunters, and the worst of them all, the judge.It's not often when I can't figure out how to summarize a book. Not only does Blood Meridian fall into this category, I'm also struggling with trying to formulate my thoughts about it. I'm sure it's one of those big important books that has themes and things of that nature. It seems apocalyptic at times, with the judge showing the kid the horrors of the world, kind of like the devil and

In Cormac McCarthy's novel The Crossing, McCarthy proves he can write about about the travels of a wolf in a poetic and engaging way. In Blood Meridian McCarthy writes about three or four wolves, calls them humans - those characters he bothers to name at all - and shows that with enough talent and powerful prose, a writer and his work can be called "great" without having to develop a single character in 330 pages.Among those who would be unsatisfied with the mere word "great" and have to go

What a show-off. I swear, if you were to hand this book to an aspiring artist experiencing a depression-inducing creative block, you may just find yourself with a d.b. on your hands thanks to thoughts like "So wait, this was written by a human being and not an alien?" and "Fuck me!" and "Oh fuck it, I give up." While you'll hear no argument from me that The Road isn't a masterpiece, it is my firm conviction that this'n is even more masterpiece-ier, though far, far darker than The Road is even

Brutal and Poetic at the same time...Just changed it to a five star, what the h...... This book is monumental. Seems like a contradiction, brutal and poetic, but somehow it works. The story is bleak, dark, bloody but also filled with beautiful descriptions of the countryside, the desert, the people in the book. The colorful Judge is some character. Tough book, not sure I took it all in and had to take some breaks during the read.... but hey, it's Cormac McCarthy...a grand writer he is. It was

The man finished the book. He closed the pages tightly together then put one foot on the floor then the other then used his hands to push himself up out of the chair and then put one foot in front of the other until he had walked all the way to the book shelf and then put the book on the book shelf. The deer walked in. The man whirled around and fired once with his pistol and the brains of the deer went flying out the back of its head and painted the wall a color dark red like blood. The man sat