EAN: 9781529077162

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Brutally violent Blood Meridian is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert border land. It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers - his magnum opus. 'Imagine if the authors of the King James Bible their hands guided by Satan wrote a western' - The Times Through the hostile landscape of the Texas-Mexico border wanders the Kid a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood. A group known as the Glanton gang hunt Indigenous Americans collecting scalps as their bloody trophies. At the centre of this violence stands Judge Holden: a massive hairless man mysterious if not supernatural erudite and cold-blooded. He is singularly extreme in his sadistic violence. But the apparent chaos is not without order - the Glanton gang too are stalked as prey. Read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form it is a powerful mesmerizing and savagely beautiful novel - and one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century. 'In Blood Meridian McCarthy reaches the peak of his style: spare and ornate at once repetitious but endlessly readable' - Guardian Praise for Cormac McCarthy: 'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series 'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright author of The Green Road and The Wren The Wren '[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie Proulx author of Brokeback Mountain Part of the Picador Collection a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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