Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

McCarthy, Cormac

ISBN 10: 039454482X / ISBN 13: 9780394544823

Published by Random House, 1985

About this Item

"First Edition" stated with appropriate number line for Random House Publishers at that date ending in 2 - First Edition stated being the 1st printing indicator, very light soiling/dusting to edges of text block - thin 1/4" long split of paper covering to bottom corner of rear board, dj now enclosed in mylar wrap shows edge wear with - 1/4" tear to top right edge of front panel at fold to flap - 1/4" tear to top left edge and 3/16" tear to top right edge of rear panel - tiny chips worn to bottom of folds to spine - 1" and 17/8" creases to bottom corner of front flap - original price intact.

Seller Inventory # FTR-5317-A

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039454482X
• ISBN 13: 9780394544823
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of desperados, with a particular focus on one, "the kid," a boy of fourteen

Review

"The men as they rode turned black in the sun from the blood on their clothes and their faces and then paled slowly in the rising dust until they assumed once more the color of the land through which they passed." If what we call "horror" can be seen as including any literature that has dark, horrific subject matter, then Blood Meridian is, in this reviewer's estimation, the best horror novel ever written. It's a perverse, picaresque Western about bounty hunters for Indian scalps near the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s--a ragged caravan of indiscriminate killers led by an unforgettable human monster called "The Judge." Imagine the imagery of Sam Peckinpah and Heironymus Bosch as written by William Faulkner, and you'll have just an inkling of this novel's power. From the opening scenes about a 14-year-old Tennessee boy who joins the band of hunters to the extraordinary, mythic ending, this is an American classic about extreme violence.