Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West

ISBN-13:	9780679728757
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/05/1992
Edition description:	Vintage International Edition
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	523
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsBased on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian 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.Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.