Blood Meridian Paperback - 1994
by Cormac McCarthy
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Readers describe this novel as a relentlessly violent, nightmarish anti?Western whose hypnotic, biblical prose and grand landscape imagery inspire awe even as its atrocities appall. Many hail it as a modern masterpiece and a searing meditation on war, manifest destiny, and human depravity, dominated by the unforgettable Judge Holden. Others find it cold, repetitive, and nearly plotless, with thin characterization beyond the Judge, punishing gore, dense vocabulary, and missing punctuation that make it a slog. The consensus: a divisive classic—revered for its language and vision, rejected as pretentious and gratuitous by some, and emphatically not for the squeamish.
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- Title Blood Meridian
- Author Cormac McCarthy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 337
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Picador USA, London
- Publication date January 7, 1994
- ISBN 9780330312561 / 0330312561
- Category Fiction - General
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
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Blood Meridian : Or, the Evening Redness in the West
by McCarthy, Cormac
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