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

By: Publication details: New York : Vintage International, 1992, c1985.Edition: 1st Vintage International edDescription: 337 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780679641049
  • 9780679728757 (trade pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 20
Summary: 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.
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Fiction (pbk) Flesherton Branch Shelves FIC McCar (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 02/14/2024 32241001148594

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.

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