Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
351 pages
|Published: 28 Apr 1985
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Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication date: 1 May 1992
Description
Blood Meridian is an 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. 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 a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
