McCARTHY, Cormac.

£4,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington

Blood Meridian First edition of the author's masterpiece, a shockingly violent work widely proclaimed as one of the greatest American novels."Blood Meridian comes at the reader like a slap in the face, an affront that asks us to endure a vision of the Old West full of charred human skulls, blood-soaked scalps, a tree hung with the bodies of dead infants... [It] makes it clear that all along Mr. McCarthy has asked us to witness evil not in order to understand it but to affirm its inexplicable reality; his elaborate language invents a world hinged between the real and surreal, jolting us out of complacency" (James).

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