Blood Meridian - Brossura

McCarthy, Cormac

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ISBN 10: 0330312561 ISBN 13: 9780330312561

Casa editrice: Picador, 2007

Riassunto

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. `McCarthy's achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect . . . He is a great writer' Independent `I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or as memorable as Blood Meridian . . . A nightmare odyssey' Evening Standard `His masterpiece . . .The book reads like a conflation of the Inferno, The Iliad and Moby Dick. I can only declare that Blood Meridian is unlike anything I have read in recent years, and seems to me an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement' John Banville

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

Cormac McCarthy's violent lyric masterpiece

L'autore:

Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten acclaimed novels, most recently The Road. Among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0330312561
• ISBN 13: 9780330312561
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352