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Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West / Cormac McCarthy.

Blood meridian (portion title)
Evening redness in the West (portion title)

Summary:

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. 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780679728757
  • ISBN: 0679728759
  • Physical Description: 351 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st Vintage International edition, 25th anniversary ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1992.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: 1985.
Subject:
Glanton Gang > Fiction.
Indians of North America > Fiction.
Teenage boys > Fiction.
Massacres > Fiction.
Outlaws > Fiction.
Mexican-American Border Region > Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Fiction.

Available copies

  • 18 of 25 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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