Blood Meridian (1985) Cormac McCarthy (Author)
Blood Meridian has evoked comparisons with the greatest works of Faulker, Melville, and Dante. Its author, Cormac McCarthy, is considered by many critics to be America's greatest living author. The novel is set along the Texas-Mexico border of the 1840s where a group of head hunters have been hired to violently remove Indians from the territory. The "kid," a young castaway, runs into these hired assasins and mercenaries and barely escapes with his life as the group confronts a tribal war party who annihilate everything in their path and appear to the kid like demons from the depths of hell. Later, the kid comes face to face with real evil when he meets Judge Holden, a child molester, killer, and perhaps the living embodiment of the devil himself. Blood Meridian will challenge what we have come to believe about the Wild West.
MAIN CHARACTERS :
The Kid, Runaway, Gunfighter, Judge Holden, Murderer, Occultist
SETTING(S) :
Gulf States, Latin America, Mexico, North America, Southwest, Texas, United States, West
SUBJECT :
Coming of age, Violence
TIME PERIOD :
19th century AD
Gale Document Number: GALE|M1300039140
Gale Database: What Do I Read Next?, 2010
SOURCE CITATION : "Blood Meridian." 2010. Books & Authors Gale. Gale Internal User. 2 Sep 2010 <http://books.wiseto.com/bna/start.do?p=BNA&u=gale>
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