Blood Meridian

Brutally violent, Blood Meridian is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert land. It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy”s reputation as one of the twentieth century”s greatest writers – his magnum opus.

‘[A] brilliant, uncompromising work of fiction – imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided by Satan, wrote a western’ – The Times

Through the hostile landscape of the Texas–Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood.

A group known as the Glanton gang hunt Indigenous Americans, collecting scalps as their bloody trophies. At the centre of this violence stands Judge Holden: a massive, hairless man, mysterious if not supernatural, erudite and cold-blooded. He is singularly extreme in his sadistic violence.

But the apparent chaos is not without order – the Glanton gang, too, are stalked as prey.

Read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form, it is a powerful, mesmerizing and savagely beautiful novel – and one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century.

‘In Blood Meridian, McCarthy reaches the peak of his style: spare and ornate at once, repetitious but endlessly readable’ – Guardian

Praise for Cormac McCarthy:

”His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power” – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series

‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren

”[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence” – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

• Kustantaja / Valmistaja Pan Macmillan
• ISBN 9781529077162
• Tuotekoodi 9781529077162
• Kirjoittajat Cormac McCarthy
• Sarja Picador Collection
• Kieli Englanti
• Thema-luokitus Moderni kirjallisuus ja nykykirjallisuus
• Ilmestymispäivä 17.02.2022
• Vuosi 2022
• Tuoteryhmä Ulk muut kaunokirjat
• Tuotepääryhmä Ulkomaiset kaunokirjat
• Tuotelinja Kirjat
• Genretunnus MU
• Sivumäärä 384
• Pituus (mm) 130
• Leveys (mm) 196
• Korkeus (mm) 31
• Paino (g) 264
• Tuotemuoto Pehmeäkantinen
• ALV 14,0%