Blood Meridian

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Beschreibung

<p><b>Brutally violent, <i>Blood Meridian</i> 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.<br><br>It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers - his magnum opus.</b><br><br><b>'Imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided by Satan, wrote a western' - <i>The Times</i></b><br><br>Through 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.<br><br>A 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.<br><br>But the apparent chaos is not without order - the Glanton gang, too, are stalked as prey.<br><br><b>Read 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.</b><br><br><b>'In <i>Blood Meridian</i>, McCarthy reaches the peak of his style: spare and ornate at once, repetitious but endlessly readable' - <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>Praise for Cormac McCarthy:<br><br>'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King, author of <i>The Shining</i> and the Dark Tower series<br><br>'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright, author of <i>The Green Road</i> and <i>The Wren, The Wren</i><br><br>'[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 <i>Brokeback

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781529077162

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 127 x 29 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Pan Macmillan