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Blood Meridian is a 1985 epic historical novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified under the Western genre. It follows a teenage runaway who joins a gang of scalp hunters and encounters the Judge, a mysterious and sadistic figure who represents the nightmarish violence of the American frontier.
Apr 28, 1985 · 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.
May 5, 1992 · 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."
- Cormac McCarthy
A comprehensive summary of the novel Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy. The plot follows the kid, a violent and amoral protagonist, as he joins a gang of scalp hunters led by the Judge in the American West.
Blood Meridian: Directed by John Hillcoat. Texas-Mexico border in the mid-19th century: Kid, a sixteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where aboriginal Americans are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
May 5, 1992 · A classic American novel of violence and depravity in the Wild West by Cormac McCarthy, the author of The Road. Based on historical events, the book follows the Kid, a young Tennesseean who joins a band of scalp hunters led by the Judge.
A study guide for Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel, a postmodern western that depicts the violence and brutality of the American frontier. Learn about the plot, themes, characters, and historical context of this acclaimed work of literature.
Jan 2, 2001 · Blood Meridian is a Pulitzer Prize–winning epic of violence and corruption in the American West, featuring the Kid and the Judge. It subverts the conventions of the...
May 5, 1992 · Blood Meridian is a fictional account of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion in the 1850s. The novel follows the Kid, a young...
A classic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expansion, based on historical events on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s. Follow the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean, and the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians, and the diabolical Judge Holden, one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction.
