{"product_id":"9781529077162","title":"Blood Meridian","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): McCarthy, Cormac \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 17\/02\/2022,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 384 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529077162,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrutally violent, Blood Meridian is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert land. It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers – his magnum opus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘[A] brilliant, uncompromising work of fiction – imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided by Satan, wrote a western’ – The TimesThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the apparent chaos is not without order – the Glanton gang, too, are stalked as prey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘In Blood Meridian, McCarthy reaches the peak of his style: spare and ornate at once, repetitious but endlessly readable’ – GuardianPraise for Cormac McCarthy:'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren'[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 Brokeback MountainPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43202706210860,"sku":"9781529077162","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529077162_04a0a4f7-272e-484b-b0b0-6439ee18ec30.jpg?v=1759667729","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/9781529077162","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}