Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Blood Meridian is a haunting and powerful novel that reimagines the Western frontier with brutal honesty. Set along the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s and inspired by real historical events, it follows the journey of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old drifter from Tennessee, who is drawn into a savage world of mercenaries and scalp hunters. As he moves through a lawless land soaked in blood and violence, the novel strips away the romanticism of the Wild West, revealing a stark and unforgiving portrait of America's expansion. Raw, lyrical, and unflinching, Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece is a landmark in American literature.