Details Out Of Books Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
| Title | : | Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West |
| Author | : | Cormac McCarthy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 337 pages |
| Published | : | May 1992 by Vintage Books (first published April 28th 1985) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Spirituality. Classics. Philosophy. Religion |
Cormac McCarthy
Paperback | Pages: 337 pages Rating: 4.17 | 101680 Users | 9161 Reviews
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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...Mention 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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Blood Meridian is a novel that deromanticizes the West and strips off its John Wayne antics - here there's absolutely no place for the moral and the good, where murder is a fact of life comitted without a blink and discarded from thought later. The desert rewards the worst scoundrels and spits on the bodies of the innocent and old who are unable to defend themselves.The novel begins with an introduction of a young teenager who's simply named "The Kid", though in fact there's no universalIn 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
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
This is Jane Austen antimatter. Trying to convey how this was so different to anything I've ever read, it occurred to me that it was like a huge black vortex that would suck early nineteenth century marriage plot novels into the void. It's the complete obverse of sweet girlie stuff: no lurve, no irony (I wonder if Cormac McCarthy has a humour mode? If he does, he certainly wasn't in it writing this), no insightful self-discovery or examination of the human heart. No, this is bleak and bloody,
Fuck yeah. This is great. I felt fully absorbed and enclosed in the nightmare. I was scared. McCarthy at his very best commands some black and frightful reserves. To chose from so many scenes: Judge Holden under a ribcage parasol holding the halfwit by a leash, the two shuffling though the sun-bleached desert Golgotha bellowing threats and promises to Kid and Expriest who are hidden, cowering, prone in the lees of those sour bones like sated scavengers awaiting the arrival of the judge and the
*Updated, now with an additional McCarthyized section of the Bible, moved up from the comment section.*Here's what I'm thinkin.THE CORMAC MCCARTHY PROJECTEver since reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, I've been considering the possibilities of revisiting the classics and, um, reinterpreting them. Butchering? Yes, you're probably right. Butchering them. That's the right word. Anyway, since Cormac McCarthy has the most distinctive and powerful voice of any modern writer (that I've read
Seductively dark, desolate, and violent, Blood Meridian speaks to you on a very primal level. On reading this a second time, I can definitely say that its one of my all-time favorites; a stark, bleak, brutal country Ill be drawn to again and again.
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