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Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic historical novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified under the Western, or sometimes the anti-Western, genre. [1] [2] McCarthy's fifth book, it was published by Random House .
- Cormac McCarthy
- 1985
Apr 28, 1985 · 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.
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Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West, novel by Cormac McCarthy, published in 1985. "See the child," orders the narrator at the beginning of Blood Meridian. Following this initial focus on a character that is known only as "kid" comes a voyage through Texas and Mexico after the U.S.-Mexico War of 1846.
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Blood Meridian takes place against the backdrop of Manifest Destiny—a nineteenth century program of American territorial expansion and imperialism, especially into regions where the local populations were deemed incapable of self-government.
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. In this, his most critically acclaimed work, McCarthy reworks the cowboy western and historical fiction genres, elevating them, with his style, to the status of high literature-a hallmark move of the "postmodern" American writing of the 1980s.
Widely considered one of the finest novels by a living writer, Blood Meridian is an epic tale of the violence and corruption that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the “Wild West.”
