Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the WestAn 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

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.

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Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/05/1992
ISBN: 9780679728757
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.76d

Review Citations: Men's Journal 04/01/2004 pg. 34
Outside 10/01/2007 pg. 64