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Brutally violent, Blood Meridian is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert border land.It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy’s reputation as one of the twentieth century’s greatest writershis magnum opus.Imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided by Satan, wrote a westernThe TimesThrough the hostile landscape of the TexasMexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood.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.But the apparent chaos is not without orderthe Glanton gang, too, are stalked as prey.Read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form, it is a powerful, mesmerizing and savagely beautiful noveland one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century.In Blood Meridian, McCarthy reaches the peak of his style: spare and ornate at once, repetitious but endlessly readableThe GuardianPraise for Cormac McCarthy:’His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power’Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower seriesMcCarthy worked to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absoluteAnne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren'[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 Brokeback MountainPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.