by Cormac McCarthy · LITERATURA RANDOM HOUSE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439721222
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Blood Meridian is an epic novel by acclaimed author Cormac McCarthy, which narrates the violence and depravity during the expansion of the United States to the west. The story follows a fourteen-year-old boy, known as 'the kid', who finds himself immersed in a nightmarish world on the border between Texas and Mexico in the 1850s. In this brutal environment, indigenous people are murdered and their scalps become a valuable commodity. The novel subverts the conventions of the western genre and the mythology of the 'wild west', offering a dark and realistic vision of this historical period.
Cormac McCarthy was an American author who wrote twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western, post-apocalyptic, and Southern Gothic genres. His works often include graphic depictions of violence, and his writing style is characterized by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists.
