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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Unabridged)
Blood Meridian Or the Evening Redness in the West - Unabridged Author:Cormac McCarthy Author of the National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier. — His birth ended his mothers life in Tenness... more »ee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then hes recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path toward destiny, he witnesses unknown horrors and sufferingand yet, as if shielded by the almighty hand of God, he survives to breathe another day.
Earning McCarthy comparisons to greats like Melville and Faulkner, Blood Meridian is a masterwork of rare genius. Gifted narrator Richard Poe wields the authors prose like a man born to speak it.
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