{"product_id":"blood-meridian","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\u003eThrough 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\u003eA 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\u003eBut 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\u003ePraise 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\u003ePart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57302922232190,"sku":"NW9781529077162","price":10.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781529077162.jpg?v=1778508713","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/blood-meridian","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}