'I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or as memorable as Blood Meridian... A nightmare odyssey' Evening Standard
Cormac McCarthy is one of the most enigmatic and reclusive superstars of the modern literary world. Living and writing from El Paso, Texas, he has shunned all requests for interviews, appearances at bookshops or literary festivals.Nonetheless, he remains one of the most admired writers of the last fifty years. His eight novels have received extraordinary reviews, being hailed as masterpieces of American literature. He has won the American National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the first book of The Border Trilogy.Cormac McCarthy is the author of twelve novels and a play. All his novels are available in Picador editions. He died in June 2023.
McCarthy distances us not only from the historical past, not only
from our cowboy-and-Indian images of it, but also revisionist
theories that make white men the villains and Indians the victims.
All men are unremittingly bloodthirsty here, poised at a peak of
violence, the "meridian" from which their civilization will quickly
fall.
*New York Times Book Review*
Blood Meridian is his masterpiece . . . An astonishing sanguinary
epic dealing with the Indian wars of the 1840s in West Texas and
Mexico . . . Unlike anything I have ever read in recent years, an
extraordinary, breathtaking achievement.
*Observer*
McCarthy's achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as
potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has
absolutely the opposite effect . . . He is a great writer.
*Independent*
A bloody and starkly beautiful tale
*Sunday Times*
Possibly the greatest American novel of the past 25 years.
*Aleksandar Hemon, author of THE LAZARUS PROJECT and NOWHERE
MAN*
Unlike anything I have read in recent years, an extraordinary,
breathtaking achievement.
*John Banville*
I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or
as memorable as Blood Meridian . . . A nightmare odyssey.
*Evening Standard*
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