Blood Meridian : Or the Evening Redness in the West (Vintage International)
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"The men as they rode turned black in the sun from the blood on their clothes and their faces and then paled slowly in the rising dust until they assumed once more the color of the land through which they passed." If what we call "horror" can be seen as including any literature that has dark, horrific subject matter, then Blood Meridian is, in this reviewer's estimation, the best horror novel ever written. It's a perverse, picaresque Western about bounty hunters for Indian scalps near the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s--a ragged caravan of indiscriminate killers led by an unforgettable human monster called "The Judge." Imagine the imagery of Sam Peckinpah and Heironymus Bosch as written by William Faulkner, and you'll have just an inkling of this novel's power. From the opening scenes about a 14-year-old Tennessee boy who joins the band of hunters to the extraordinary, mythic ending, this is an American classic about extreme violence.
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"McCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestly—envied."
—Ralph Ellison
"McCarthy is a born narrator, and his writing has, line by line, the stab of actuality. He is here to stay."
—Robert Penn Warren
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Blood Meridian : Or the Evening Redness in the West (Vintage International)
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Vintage International),Cormac Mccarthy,Vintage,0679728759,Fiction,Fiction - Historical,Historical - General,Indians of North America,Literary,Massacres,Mexican- American Border Regio,Popular American Fiction,Teenage boys,Westerns - General,Fiction / Literary
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