Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West
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An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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. Vintage Books understands that this may cause confusion with page references made to the earlier edition, so a chart has been compiled as a conversion aid. Download the chart by copying and pasting the following link into your browser:http://knopfdoubleday.com/marketing/BloodMeridianPageReference.pdfAlan Cheuse,USA Today - Alan CheuseMcCarthy employs a neo-Biblical rhetoric, a soaring, pulsing always stirring diction without parallel in American writing today.
