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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679728759
ISBN-139780679728757
eBay Product ID (ePID)293499
Product Key Features
Book TitleBlood Meridian : or the Evening Redness in the West
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
TopicLiterary, Westerns, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorCormac McCarthy
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight9.4 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN91-050742
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"McCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestly-envied." -Ralph Ellison "McCarthy is a born narrator, and his writing has, line by line, the stab of actuality. He is here to stay." -Robert Penn Warren From the Hardcover edition., "McCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestly-envied." -Ralph Ellison "McCarthy is a born narrator, and his writing has, line by line, the stab of actuality. He is here to stay." -Robert Penn Warren
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Synopsis25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION * From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road: a n epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. One of The Atlantic 's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years 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 Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving., An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Publisher's Note: The 25th Anniversary Edition has been reset, causing the text to reflow. Page references based on earlier editions will no longer apply, so Vintage Books has compiled the following chart as a conversion aid. Download the chart by copying and pasting the following link into your browser: http: //knopfdoubleday.com/marketing/BloodMeridianPageReference.pdf, 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - F rom the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road: a n epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. One of The Atlantic 's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years 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 Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.