{"product_id":"blood-meridian-1","title":"Blood Meridian","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrutally violent, \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert land. It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers - his magnum opus.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'[A] brilliant, uncompromising work of fiction - imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided by Satan, wrote a western' - \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through the hostile landscape of the Texas-Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A group known as the Glanton gang hunt Indigenous Americans, collecting scalps as their bloody trophies. At the centre of this violence stands Judge Holden: a massive, hairless man, mysterious if not supernatural, erudite and cold-blooded. He is singularly extreme in his sadistic violence.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But the apparent chaos is not without order - the Glanton gang, too, are stalked as prey.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRead as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form, it is a powerful, mesmerizing and savagely beautiful novel - and one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'In \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e, McCarthy reaches the peak of his style: spare and ornate at once, repetitious but endlessly readable' - \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Praise for Cormac McCarthy:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shining\u003c\/i\u003e and the Dark Tower series\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Green Road\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wren, The Wren\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e '[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie Proulx, author of \u003ci\u003eBrokeback Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Blood Meridian","offer_id":44797890199749,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-5290-7716-2.jpg?v=1749169266","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/blood-meridian-1","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}