Blood Meridian

Author: Cormac McCarthy

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Price : 19.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780330510943
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Imprint : Picador
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Weight (g) : 0.268
Publication date : September 2012
Dimensions : 19.70 cmmm X 12.90 cmmm X 2.50 cmmm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Out of print date : June 2020
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Author : Cormac McCarthy
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Edition : 1
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 813.54
Reading Level : good
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Pages : 352
BIC subject : FA
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"Blood Meridian" is 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. 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 a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. 'McCarthy's achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect . . . He is a great writer' "Independent" 'I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or as memorable as "Blood Meridian" . . . A nightmare odyssey' "Evening Standard" 'His masterpiece . . .The book reads like a conflation of the "Inferno," "The Iliad "and "Moby Dick." I can only declare that Blood Meridian is unlike anything I have read in recent years, and seems to me an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement' John Banville

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'I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or as memorable as Blood Meridian ... A nightmare odyssey' Evening Standard

Author description

Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten acclaimed novels, most recently The Road. Among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.