| Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Contributor(s): McCarthy, Cormac (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679728759 ISBN-13: 9780679728757 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1992 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Westerns - General - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91050742 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.22" W x 8.02" (0.59 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |