Unlike Anything I Have Read in Recent Years, an Extraordinary, Breathtaking Achievement
Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian (2010, Pan Macmillan)
352 pages
English language
Published Dec. 26, 2010 by Pan Macmillan.
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it 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.
I struggled with this book. I loved The Road but many words were difficult maybe because English is not my first language. So much violence... Maybe human nature but ... definitely some description of landscape are beautiful!
Dear god. A hell of a read and a hell of a reread.
Cormac McCarthy's best, pushing the limits of what literature can do all in service of telling the violence of the American West.
