Literary Fiction

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

by Cormac McCarthy

The kid joins a band of scalp hunters roaming the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the 1850s, where they leave rivers of blood in their wake. McCarthy's apocalyptic vision of the American West is a symphony of violence and Biblical grandeur, presided over by the terrifying Judge Holden. This is the frontier stripped of myth, revealing only darkness and the will to dominate.

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