Blood Meridian - (Vintage International) by Cormac McCarthy (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION <b>-</b> An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, <i>Blood Meridian</i> brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West<b>--from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>The Road</i></b></b> <p/>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 the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A classic American novel of regeneration through violence. McCarthy can only be compared to our greatest writers, with Melville and Faulkner, and this is his masterpiece. <br>--Michael Herr <p/>McCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestly--envied.<br> --Ralph Ellison <p/> McCarthy is a born narrator, and his writing has, line by line, the stab of actuality. He is here to stay.<br> --Robert Penn Warren<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in1933 and spent most of his childhood near Knoxville, Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Air Force and later studied at the University of Tennessee. In 1976 he moved to El Paso, Texas, where he lives today. McCarthy's fiction parallels his movement from the Southeast to the West--the first four novels being set in Tennessee, the last three in the Southwest and Mexico. <b>The Orchard Keeper</b> (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed by <b>Outer Dark</b> (1968), <b>Child of God</b> (1973), <b>Suttree</b> (1979), <b>Blood Meridian</b> (1985), <b>All the Pretty Horses</b>, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award for fiction in 1992, and <b>The Crossing</b>.
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