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Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West

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There are few modern writers more widely recognized for their brilliance than Cormac McCarthy, and this is him at his best, eviscerating the traditional Western novel and shining bright lights on the atrocities committed in America’s westward expansion.

One of The Atlantic’s “Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years,” now with a new foreword by Marlon James

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 gan...

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