Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy
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Author: Cormac McCarthyEdition: Paperback
Published: 1992-05-05
ISBN: 0679728759
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: Violence & Gore and Very Little Else
Summary: 2 Stars
Where to start with this book? This is my 5th novel by CM. I am familiar with his style, his keen eye for detail, his characters, his way with dialogue, and the violence. This, however, just seemed like a complete "gore fest" to me. Barbaric characters, wayward souls, wasted, wasted lives. It is a difficult and tedious read, humorless, rudderless, and unrelenting violence. Not McComac's best or even better novels, I think.
Summary of Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
"The men as they rode turned black in the sun from the blood on their clothes and their faces and then paled slowly in the rising dust until they assumed once more the color of the land through which they passed." If what we call "horror" can be seen as including any literature that has dark, horrific subject matter, then Blood Meridian is, in this reviewer's estimation, the best horror novel ever written. It's a perverse, picaresque Western about bounty hunters for Indian scalps near the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s--a ragged caravan of indiscriminate killers led by an unforgettable human monster called "The Judge." Imagine the imagery of Sam Peckinpah and Heironymus Bosch as written by William Faulkner, and you'll have just an inkling of this novel's power. From the opening scenes about a 14-year-old Tennessee boy who joins the band of hunters to the extraordinary, mythic ending, this is an American classic about extreme violence.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.
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