Contributions

  • Philipp Meyer - Introduction

Publication

2015-08-13 - Picador

Language

English

Word Count

92,000 words, Guess

Page Count

368 pages

Physical Format

Ebook

Identifiers

Description

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.

First Sentence

Thirty years ago, if you’d asked someone to name the most important writers in America, Cormac McCarthy would not have been one of them.

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Other Editions

  • Blood MeridianebookPicador2015-08-13

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