Author of the National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier. His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path toward destiny, he witnesses unknown horrors and suffering-and yet, as if shielded by the almighty hand of God, he survives to breathe another day. Earning McCarthy comparisons to greats like Melville and Faulkner, Blood Meridian is a masterwork of rare genius. Gifted narrator Richard Poe wields the author's prose like a man born to speak it.
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Gullponken
2023-07-27
Grym och oförlåtande. I flera bemärkelser.
Patrik
2023-03-21
Mänsklighetens ondska, kryddad med The Judge som en semiotisk, allegorisk karaktär. Rätt kul. Skulle gärna se den översatt.
william
2022-06-13
Mindes den som en riktig kanonbok förra gången jag läste den, men det känns lite som att den är mer yta än faktisk handling. Välskriven och väldigt stämningsfull men precis som hans andra böcker är det mest slitna snubbar som rider runt i en öken och beter sig
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