{"product_id":"9781529077162","title":"Blood Meridian","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  McCarthy, Cormac \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 17 February 2022 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Picador Collection' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 384 pages\u003cbr\u003e130 x 196 x 31 | 264g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrutally 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 border land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers – his magnum opus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided by Satan, wrote a western’ – The TimesThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the apparent chaos is not without order – the Glanton gang, too, are stalked as prey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘In Blood Meridian, McCarthy reaches the peak of his style: spare and ornate at once, repetitious but endlessly readable’ – GuardianPraise 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 MountainPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshop Mold","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55504670720376,"sku":"9781529077162","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7802\/3522\/files\/9781529077162.jpg?v=1773927164","url":"https:\/\/www.mold-bookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781529077162","provider":"The Bookshop. Mold.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}