FICTION · FIRST PUBLISHED 1992
Blood Meridian
Or the Evening Redness in the West
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25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • F rom the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: a n epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West.
One of The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian 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.
Details
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- ISBN
- 9780679728757
- Language
- English
Subjects
- Literary
- Historical
- Westerns
