Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

1985 • 368 pages

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Average rating4.1

or, The Evening Redness in the West

Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

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A well-written, but miserable, slog.

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I don't know how to judge this book. It is full of violence and depravity. The writing is rich and engrossing. I couldn't recommend it to most people I know, yet I'm glad that I read it.

October 9, 2020

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