# Blood Meridian, Vol. 1

By **Cormac McCarthy**

- ISBN-13: 9781529077162
- Series: [Blood Meridian](https://mybookbandits.com/series/blood-meridian)
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- Pages: 352
- Published: 17 Feb 2022
- Language: en
- Price: £24.22 (new)
- Categories: Fiction, Classics, Small Town & Rural, Thrillers, Westerns, Psychological, Literary, Historical, Southern

## About this book

Brutally violent, Blood Meridian is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert land. It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers - his magnum opus.  '[A] brilliant, uncompromising work of fiction - imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided by Satan, wrote a western' - The Times  Through the hostile landscape of the Texas-Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen year-old 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 cold-blooded. He is singularly extreme in his sadistic violence.  But the apparent chaos is not without order - 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 - and one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century.  'In Blood Meridian, McCarthy reaches the peak of his style: spare and ornate at once, repetitious but endlessly readable' - Guardian  Praise for Cormac McCarthy:  'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series  'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren  '[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain  Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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