Blood meridian, or The evening redness in the West: Mccarthy Cormac - Brossura

McCarthy, Cormac

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ISBN 10: 0330510940 ISBN 13: 9780330510943

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Riassunto

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 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 Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

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Cormac McCarthy's violent lyric masterpiece, Blood Meridian acquires an amoral, apocalyptic dimension through the Miltonic grandeur of the language . . . It is a barbarously poetic odyssey through a hell without purpose. (Irish Times)

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)

A bloody and starkly beautiful tale. (Stephen Amidon Sunday Times)

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‘I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or as memorable as Blood Meridian . . . A nightmare odyssey’ Evening Standard

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0330510940
• ISBN 13: 9780330510943
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 352