Blood Meridian
- New York: Random House, 1985
New York: Random House, 1985. First edition. Fine/Fine. McCarthy's masterwork, frontrunner for best American novel from the 1980s. Octavo. Original red cloth-backed red boards, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in metallic red. With dust jacket. Title page and facing page illustrated with map of New Mexico. A Fine copy in like dust jacket. Bright and fresh overall.
McCarthy’s masterful meditation on brutality, death, and the American West. Set in the mid-nineteenth century, Blood Meridian follows the adventures of “The Kid,” who joins the violent Glanton Gang, and his relationship with the imposing and demonic figure of Judge Holden. Published in 1985, the novel was McCarthy’s fifth book, but the first to take place in the American Southwest. Writer David Foster Wallace called it "[p]robably the most horrifying book of this century, at least [in] fiction" and critic Harold Bloom referred to Blood Meridian as "the greatest single book since Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.” It appears on Time magazine’s list of the 100 greatest English novels from 1923-2005.
“Any page of his work reveals his originality, a passionate voice given equally to ugliness and lyricism” (contemporary New York Times review). Fine in Fine dust jacket.
McCarthy’s masterful meditation on brutality, death, and the American West. Set in the mid-nineteenth century, Blood Meridian follows the adventures of “The Kid,” who joins the violent Glanton Gang, and his relationship with the imposing and demonic figure of Judge Holden. Published in 1985, the novel was McCarthy’s fifth book, but the first to take place in the American Southwest. Writer David Foster Wallace called it "[p]robably the most horrifying book of this century, at least [in] fiction" and critic Harold Bloom referred to Blood Meridian as "the greatest single book since Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.” It appears on Time magazine’s list of the 100 greatest English novels from 1923-2005.
“Any page of his work reveals his originality, a passionate voice given equally to ugliness and lyricism” (contemporary New York Times review). Fine in Fine dust jacket.