{"product_id":"cormac-mccarthy-blood-meridian-9781529077162","title":"Blood Meridian","description":"Brutally violent, Blood Meridian is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert border land. It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers - his magnum opus. 'Imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided by Satan, wrote a western' - The Times Through 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. A 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. But the apparent chaos is not without order - the Glanton gang, too, are stalked as prey. Read 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. 'In Blood Meridian, McCarthy reaches the peak of his style: spare and ornate at once, repetitious but endlessly readable' - Guardian Praise for Cormac McCarthy: 'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series 'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren '[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 Brokeback Mountain Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53670104531286,"sku":"9781529077162-V","price":9.47,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Used - like new","offer_id":54068548370774,"sku":"9781529077162-N","price":9.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":54076223881558,"sku":"9781529077162-G","price":9.44,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781529077162_1_9ed28467-dee7-428e-988f-4ede09a44e36.jpg?v=1778826771","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/cormac-mccarthy-blood-meridian-9781529077162","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}