337 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2001 by Modern Library.
Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West
4 stars
(3 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- Indians of North America -- Fiction
- Teenage boys -- Fiction
- Massacres -- Fiction
- Outlaws -- Fiction
- Glanton Gang -- Fiction
- Mexican-American Border Region -- Fiction