Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
Taste attributes: westernhistoricalwarslowfresh & originalunsavouryheavylineargrittybig & variedself destruction/implosioninjustice/tragedy/vengeance
Boxlist takeDark and weighty: a sweeping western, slow-burning rather than fast. Best if you like depth over escapism.
Pace: slow · Originality: balanced · Tone: very dark · Weight: very heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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3.9 / 5
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About This Book
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...
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- Cormac McCarthy
- Published
- 1985
- Pages
- 354
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- Open Library
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