"I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable." Cormac McCarthy's masterwork, Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. "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. He is here to stay.” -Robert Penn Warren Buchrückseite An extraordinary, breathtaking achievement.” -John Banville, The Independent (London) “McCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestly-envied.” -Ralph Ellison “McCarthy is a born narrator, and his writing has, line by line, the stab of actuality. always stirring diction without parallel in American writing today.” -Alan Cheuse, USA Today “ reads like a connotation of The Inferno, The Iliad, and Moby-Dick. I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable.” -Harold Bloom, from his Introduction “McCarthy can only be compared with our greatest writers, with Melville and Faulkner, and this is his masterpiece.” -Michael Herr “McCarthy employs a neo-Biblical rhetoric, a soaring, pulsing. “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. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian represents a genius vision of the historical West, one whose stature has only grown in the years since its publication. Seeming to preside over this nightmarish world is the diabolical Judge Holden, one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction.
I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable.”-Harold Bloom, from his Introduction “McCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestly-envied.”-Ralph Ellison Widely considered one of the finest novels by a living writer, Blood Meridian is an epic tale of the violence and corruption that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the “Wild West.” Its wounded hero, the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean, must confront the extraordinary brutality of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians.
The “masterpiece” (Michael Herr) of the New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road, No Country for Old Men, and the upcoming The Passenger and Stella Maris “Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner.
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