Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West **FIRST PRINTING of the Modern Library 25th Anniversary Edition**

McCarthy, Cormac

ISBN 10: 0679641041 / ISBN 13: 9780679641049

Published by Modern Library, 2010

About this Item

Hardcover. Condition: NEW. Dust Jacket Condition: NEW. FIRST PRINTING of the Modern Library 25th Anniversary Edition. Printed in 2010 including the full number line on the copyright page indicating a first printing. This book and dust jacket are FLAWLESS - UNREAD, NEW BOOK STORE QUALITY. For Cormac McCarthy collectors this is the book to own. Protected in archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector (photo shows lines in the dust jacket but that is only the mylar - book and jacket are pristine).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West **FIRST PRINTING of the Modern Library 25th Anniversary Edition**
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679641041
• ISBN 13: 9780679641049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

The “masterpiece” (Michael Herr) of the New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road, No Country for Old Men, The Passenger, and Stella Maris
 
“Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner. I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable.”—Harold Bloom, from his Introduction
 
“McCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestly—envied.”—Ralph Ellison
 
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Widely considered one of the finest novels by a living writer, Blood Meridian is an epic tale of the violence and corruption that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the “Wild West.” Its wounded hero, the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean, must confront the extraordinary brutality of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians. Seeming to preside over this nightmarish world is the diabolical Judge Holden, one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction.
 
Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian represents a genius vision of the historical West, one whose stature has only grown in the years since its publication.

About the Author

The novels of the American writer Cormac McCarthy have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men—the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. He died in 2023.