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Blood Meridian

Or the Evening Redness in the West

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 Author of the National Book Award-winning 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.©1985 Cormac McCarthy (P)2007 Recorded Books Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Scary Emotionally Gripping Old West Wild West

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“The authentic American apocalyptic novel…I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable as Blood Meridian.” (Harold Bloom)
"McCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestly envied." (Ralph Ellison)
"McCarthy is a born narrator, and his writing has, line by line, the stab of actuality. He is here to stay." (Robert Penn Warren)
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a cruel, searing, oppressive, brutal, savage, barbaric and overwhelming journey of the human soul that is a brilliant, dazzling, heart-stopping and mind-bending piece of literature. i am still numbed from this experience.

beauty and the beast

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Biblical in size, prose and meaning, a glimpse into hell and the ending leaves you empty.

Brutal Masterpiece

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The horror of this book is even more extreme when listened to. A tsunami of violence, metaphors, landscapes and philosophical musings. Will be too much for many but if you have the stomach, this is incredible. Narrator was excellent.

Gruesome Poetry

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Among the top 10 book narrations I have ever heard. The book is one of the best of all time. But beware as it is insanely violent and truly disturbing to the core.

Incredible narration

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Superbly written and narrated but what is the point behind it and the extreme violence ? We know it happened and is still happening in this world today.
This story though written so well just ends into the ether.

A violent pointless tale

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