Blood Meridian

Or the Evening Redness in the West

Plot

By the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, "Blood Meridian" is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting 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 a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. About the Author____________________ Cormac McCarthy is the author of "The Orchard Keeper", "Outer Dark", "Child of God", "Suttree", "Blood Meridian", and "All the Pretty Horses", which won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.