Blood Meridian - (Modern Library (Hardcover)) by Cormac McCarthy (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of outlaws, with a particular focus on one, "the kid," a boy of fourteen.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner," writes esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition. "I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable." <p/>Cormac McCarthy's masterwork, Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians and sell those scalps. Loosely based on fact, the novel represents a genius vision of the historical West, one so fiercely realized that since its initial publication in 1985 the canon of American literature has welcomed Blood Meridian to its shelf. <p/>"A classic American novel of regeneration through violence," declares Michael Herr. "McCarthy can only be compared to our greatest writers."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"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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