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BLOOD MERIDIAN - CORMAC MCCARTHY TASCHENBUCH

Brutally 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 border land.  It is
the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest
writers - his magnum opus.    'Imagine if the authors of the King James Bible  their hands
guided by Satan  wrote a western' - The Times   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.  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.  But the apparent chaos is not without order - the
Glanton gang  too  are stalked as prey.   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.    'In
Blood Meridian   McCarthy reaches the peak of his style: spare and ornate at once  repetitious
but endlessly readable' - Guardian   Praise 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
Mountain    Part of the Picador Collection  a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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