Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

McCarthy, Cormac

ISBN 10: 039454482X / ISBN 13: 9780394544823

Published by Random House, 1985

About this Item

"First Edition" stated with appropriate number line for Random House Publishers at that date ending in 2 - First Edition stated being the 1st printing indicator, very light soiling/dusting to edges of text block - thin 1/4" long split of paper covering to bottom corner of rear board, dj now enclosed in mylar wrap shows edge wear with - 1/4" tear to top right edge of front panel at fold to flap - 1/4" tear to top left edge and 3/16" tear to top right edge of rear panel - tiny chips worn to bottom of folds to spine - 1" and 17/8" creases to bottom corner of front flap - original price intact.

Seller Inventory # FTR-5317-A

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039454482X
• ISBN 13: 9780394544823
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of desperados, with a particular focus on one, "the kid," a boy of fourteen

Review

McCarthy distances us not only from the historical past, not only from our cowboy-and-Indian images of it, but also revisionist theories that make white men the villains and Indians the victims. All men are unremittingly bloodthirsty here, poised at a peak of violence, the "meridian" from which their civilization will quickly fall. (New York Times Book Review)

Blood Meridian is his masterpiece . . . An astonishing sanguinary epic dealing with the Indian wars of the 1840s in West Texas and Mexico . . . Unlike anything I have ever read in recent years, an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement. (John Banville Observer)

McCarthy's achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect . . . He is a great writer. (Independent)

A bloody and starkly beautiful tale (Stephen Amidon Sunday Times)

Possibly the greatest American novel of the past 25 years. (Aleksandar Hemon, author of THE LAZARUS PROJECT and NOWHERE MAN)

Unlike anything I have read in recent years, an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement. (John Banville)