Blood Meridian：Or the Evening Redness in the West

"ThefulfilledrenownofMoby-DickandofAsILayDyingisaugmentedbyBloodMeridian,sinceCormacMcCarthyistheworthydisciplebothofMelvilleandFaulkner,"writesesteemedliteraryscholarHaroldBloominhisIntroductiontotheModernLibraryedition."IventurethatnootherlivingAmericannovelist,notevenPynchon,hasgivenusabookasstrongandmemorable."CormacMcCarthy'smasterwork,BloodMeridian,chroniclesthebrutalworldoftheTexas-Mexicoborderlandsinthemid-nineteenthcentury.Itswoundedhero,theteenageKid,mustconfronttheextraordinaryviolenceoftheGlantongang,amurderouscadreonanofficialmissiontoscalpIndiansandsellthosescalps.Looselybasedonfact,thenovelrepresentsageniusvisionofthehistoricalWest,onesofiercelyrealizedthatsinceitsinitialpublicationin1985thecanonofAmericanliteraturehaswelcomedBloodMeridiantoitsshelf."AclassicAmericannovelofregenerationthroughviolence,"declaresMichaelHerr."McCarthycanonlybecomparedtoourgreatestwriters."