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4092573Blood Meridianhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/blood-meridian-9781447289463/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3795603/ed390768-abba-4267-bc7e-6c6f3f0d633b.jpg?v=638736244918630000226257MXNPan MacmillanInStock/Ebooks/<p>Brutally violent, <em>Blood Meridian</em> 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 McCarthys reputation as one of the twentieth centurys greatest writers.</p><p>[A] brilliant, uncompromising work of fiction imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided by Satan, wrote a western <em>The Times</em></p><p>Through the hostile landscape of the TexasMexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood.</p><p>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.</p><p>But the apparent chaos is not without order the Glanton gang, too, are stalked as prey.</p><p><strong>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.</strong></p><p><strong>In <em>Blood Meridian</em>, McCarthy reaches the peak of his style: spare and ornate at once, repetitious but endlessly readable <em>Guardian</em></strong></p><p>Praise for Cormac McCarthy:</p><p>McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute Anne Enright, author of <em>The Green Road</em> and <em>The Wren, The Wren</em></p><p>His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power Stephen King, author of <em>The Shining</em> and the Dark Tower series</p><p>[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence Annie Proulx, author of <em>Brokeback Mountain</em></p><p><strong>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.</strong></p>...4027366Blood Meridian226257https://www.gandhi.com.mx/blood-meridian-9781447289463/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3795603/ed390768-abba-4267-bc7e-6c6f3f0d633b.jpg?v=638736244918630000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20159781447289463_W3siaWQiOiJmYWI1MDVmYy1hNGMzLTRlMjMtYTNjZS05ZjAyN2VmYTBlNDEiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI2MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjMxLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIyOSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMTBUMDU6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781447289463_<p><strong>Set in the anarchic world opened up by Americas westward expansion, <em>Blood Meridian</em> by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account of the barbarous violence that man visits upon man.</strong> <strong>With an introduction by Philipp Meyer.</strong></p><p><em>The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full.</em></p><p>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. But the apparent chaos is not without its order: while Americans hunt Indians collecting scalps as their bloody trophies they too are stalked as prey.</p><p>Since its first publication in 1985, <em>Blood Meridian</em> has been read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form. Powerful and savagely beautiful, it has emerged as one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century. A truly mesmerizing classic.</p>(*_*)9781447289463_<p>Brutally violent, <em>Blood Meridian</em> 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 McCarthys reputation as one of the twentieth centurys greatest writers.</p><p>[A] brilliant, uncompromising work of fiction imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided by Satan, wrote a western <em>The Times</em></p><p>Through the hostile landscape of the TexasMexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood.</p><p>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.</p><p>But the apparent chaos is not without order the Glanton gang, too, are stalked as prey.</p><p><strong>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.</strong></p><p><strong>In <em>Blood Meridian</em>, McCarthy reaches the peak of his style: spare and ornate at once, repetitious but endlessly readable <em>Guardian</em></strong></p><p>Praise for Cormac McCarthy:</p><p>McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute Anne Enright, author of <em>The Green Road</em> and <em>The Wren, The Wren</em></p><p>His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power Stephen King, author of <em>The Shining</em> and the Dark Tower series</p><p>[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence Annie Proulx, author of <em>Brokeback Mountain</em></p><p><strong>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.</strong></p>...9781447289463_Pan Macmillanlibro_electonico_091fd18a-7e12-34d1-9703-ff7f0abc1b81_9781447289463;9781447289463_9781447289463Cormac McCarthyInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/macmillanuk-epub-d8a0e044-f544-46b7-9aa4-b7d5840d53a7.epub2015-08-13T00:00:00+00:00Pan Macmillan