Full name: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Author: Cormac McCarthy Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Western, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Google Books eBooks.com Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780330544580 0330544586

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." Similar books: The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth Rabbit Redux by John Updike Rabbit, Run by John Updike V. by Thomas Pynchon Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth I Married a Communist by Philip Roth Ghost Town by Robert Coover The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth Suttree by Cormac McCarthy The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss The Help by Kathryn Stockett A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini