BLOOD MERIDIAN
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 land. It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers - his magnum opus.
' A brilliant, uncompromising work of fiction - 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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, Child of God and The Passenger. Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country for Old Men - the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of 89.
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MCCARTHY CORMAC
Cormac McCarthy nació el 20 de julio de 1933 en Providence, Rhode Island, Estados Unidos, con el nombre de Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. En 1937 su familia se trasladó a Knoxville, Tennessee, donde cursó estudios en St. Mary's Parochial School y Knoxville Catholic High School. Asistió a la Universidad de Tennessee sin completar un grado y sirvió en la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos entre 1953 y 1957. Publicó doce novelas, dos obras de teatro, cinco guiones y tres relatos breves, entre ellos Suttree, Blood Meridian, The Border Trilogy, No Country for Old Men y The Road. Falleció el 13 de junio de 2023 en Santa Fe, Nuevo México.
