BLOOD MERIDIAN; or, The Evening Redness in the West

McCarthy, Cormac

Editore: Random House, 1985

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SIGNED and inscribed by Cormac McCarthy on the title page to Gyula Visnyei, aka Juli Veee, the Hungarian-American soccer player. Cormac faltered in the spelling of 'Gyula', one of the main reasons Juli tended to ask authors to stick with 'Juli V' in inscriptions. 337pp. Red paper over boards backed in red cloth, red and gilt stamped spine lettering. One miniscule spot to top edge, else FINE; very small nick to tail of DJ spine, exceedingly crisp and bright otherwise. McCarthy's fifth novel, first western, and first and only written in the full freedom of his mature style. Upon publication a few critics saluted its genius but 1985 America didn't have much appetite for such a blatantly grotesque apocalypse of the American drive West; Ahearn states only 1,500 copies sold (others have claimed 1,883) of 5,000 printed in the first edition, the rest marred with the dread felt remainder pen. Its commercial flop was a failure of the reading public not seen since Moby Dick, whose style and content Blood Meridian is often compared to. Following the success of the Border Trilogy, readers returned to Blood Meridian finding in it the purest distillate of McCarthy's powers, a perfectly harnessed thunderstrike which he had the wisdom to never attempt again. 'And another thing,' to quote Mark Hime, 'Blood Meridian has all the charm of cutting into a loaf of bread and finding a dead mouse, so don t take a shower before reading this book, because you are going to need a long one afterwards.'.

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• Titolo: BLOOD MERIDIAN; or, The Evening Redness in the West
• Editore: Random House
• Data di pubblicazione: 1985
• Rilegatura: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: NEAR FINE
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: NEAR FINE
• Firmato: Autografato dall'autore
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Fine and Rare