Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

351 Pages, Published In 1985

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Often hailed as one of the greatest American novels ever written, Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985) is an epic historical novel set along the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s. It follows a 14-year-old boy, the Kid, who flees Tennessee and joins the infamous Glanton Gang—a ruthless band of scalp hunters who massacre Indigenous people and anyone in their path. Brutal, violent, dark, and deeply philosophical, Blood Meridian stands as a towering masterpiece of the American Western novel.