Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy's art of war - New Statesman

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In Blood Meridian the author reaches the dark heart of the American novel – where violence is timeless.
In April 1992, in one of the few interviews he gave during his life, Cormac McCarthy admitted what he tellingly considered an “ugly fact”: books, his included, are made out of other books. He cited Wi

The Saturday Read: Tears in the rain

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West: Cormac McCarthy: 9780679728757: : Books

The Saturday Read: Tears in the rain

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.