Displaying 1 of 1 2001 Format: Book Author: McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- Title: Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West / Cormac McCarthy ; introduction by Harold Bloom. Publisher, Date: New York : Modern Library, 2001. New York : Vintage Books, [2010] ©1985 Edition: Modern Library ed. Description: xiii, 337 pages ; 20 cm. 349 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects: Glanton Gang -- Fiction Indigenous peoples -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction Teenage boys -- Fiction Massacres -- Fiction Outlaws -- Fiction Gangs -- Fiction Mexican-American Border Region -- History -- Fiction Genre: Historical fiction Other Title: Evening redness in the West LCCN: 00064576 ISBN: 9780679641049 (hc.) 9780679728757 (softcover) Other Number: 44885348 System Availability: 12 Current Holds: 2 # Local items: 12 Control Number: 234529 Course Reserves: 0 # Local items in: 5 # System items in: 5 Place Request Please select and request a specific volume by clicking one of the icons in the 'Where is it?' section below. Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Where is it? Summary "The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner," writes esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition. "I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable." Cormac McCarthy's masterwork, Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians and sell those scalps. Loosely based on fact, the novel represents a genius vision of the historical West, one so fiercely realized that since its initial publication in 1985 the canon of American literature has welcomed Blood Meridian to its shelf. "A classic American novel of regeneration through violence," declares Michael Herr. "McCarthy can only be compared to our greatest writers." Suggestions and more Map It First Chapter or Excerpt Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
