Sách - Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (UK edition, paperback)

Bán và giao hàng bởi EXPERAL Việt Nam Tác giả: Cormac McCarthy Nhà xuất bản: Penguin Random House Công ty phát hành: Penguin Random House ISBN 13: 9781529077162 Tình trạng: Mới Binding: paperback Số trang: 384 Năm phát hành: 2022 Kích thước: 197 x 130 x 25 | 274 (gram) ---------------------------------------- Review QuoteBlood 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 achievementReview QuoteA bloody and starkly beautiful taleReview QuotePossibly the greatest American novel of the past 25 yearsReview QuoteI have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or as memorable as Blood Meridian . . . A nightmare odysseyReview QuoteThe Judge is the book, and the Judge is, short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in all of American literatureReview QuoteMcCarthy 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 fallReview QuoteIn Blood Meridian, McCarthy reaches the peak of his style: spare and ornate at once, repetitious but endlessly readableReview QuoteBlood Meridian, published in 1985, is a brilliant, uncompromising work of fiction – imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided Satan, wrote a westernA chaotically violent and hauntingly beautiful novel from one of the greatest American novelists, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Cormac McCarthy.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 TimesThrough 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.‘In Blood Meridian, McCar