Synopsis
Brutally violent, Blood Meridian is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert land. It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers – his magnum opus.
‘[A] brilliant, uncompromising work of fiction – imagine if the authors of the...
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17 February 2022384 pages
9781529077162Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Blood Meridian is his masterpiece . . . An astonishing sanguinary epic dealing with the Indian wars of the 1840s in West Texas and Mexico . . . Unlike anything I have ever read in recent years, an extraordinary, breathtaking achievementJohn Banville, author of The Sea
A bloody and starkly beautiful taleStephen Amidon, Sunday Times
Possibly the greatest American novel of the past 25 yearsAleksandar Hemon, author of The World and All That It Holds and The Lazarus Project
I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or as memorable as Blood Meridian . . . A nightmare odysseyEvening Standard
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