Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian

By Cormac McCarthy

  • Release Date: 1992-05-05
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 1,254 Ratings)
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Description

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: 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.

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian 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.

Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Reviews

  • You’re either gonna love it or you’re gonna hate it….

    5
    By GroovyBoomstick
    As I suggest this book, just understand something’s for one if you don’t like gore and lots of senseless (or meaningful depending on your opinion) violence, I’d steer clear from this novel but if you can stomach it, I truly believe Cormac McCarthy has a great way with his words and descriptions, and themes that will stay with you forever. Some may say this novel is pointless and pretentious but I beg to differ!(ok maybe a little pretentious lol)

  • Will you dance

    5
    By lord Raiden 2
    Or will you run

  • He never sleeps, The Judge. He is dancing, dancing And he says that he will never die.

    5
    By Kompton Al
    This is now considered my new favorite book. Never have I ever read a book that gave me an experience like this one had. The prose are so lyrical and poetic that it will put you in a hypnotic flow once you get in to the book and figure out its rhythm it’s almost like a trance that it will be hard to put it down. Such powerful writing. So much violence and he makes it sound poetic. This book is a must read.

  • Gud book

    5
    By PodcastCritic69/420/1836
    “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”

  • Masterpiece

    5
    By josh199922
    One of the best pieces of American literature

  • Terrific

    5
    By 254@easy
    Great piece of literature

  • Enthralling

    5
    By vid ICARUS
    Challenging and inviting all in one, McCarthy’s prose flow sweetly like a fine whiskey over the tongue with a strong bite. It’s a liquid quicksilver magic, both enchanting and dangerous at once. Truly a masterwork.

  • Another banger by McCarthy!!!

    5
    By Madjack0707
    A terrifying vision of the old west.

  • Literary Classic

    4
    By joshcardinal
    It’s written so well that I might need to read it again to completely understand who the Judge really was.

  • epic

    5
    By mwhdavies
    in all honesty, the greatest american novel of all time

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