Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West / Cormac McCarthy.
Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of desperados, with a particular focus on one, "the kid," a boy of fourteen. An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780679728757
- ISBN: 0679728759
- Physical Description: 351 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: 1st Vintage International ed., 25th anniversary ed.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1992.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: 1985. |
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| Subject: | Glanton Gang > Fiction. Indians of North America > Fiction. Teenage boys > Fiction. Massacres > Fiction. Outlaws > Fiction. Mexican-American Border Region > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Fiction. |
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- 15 of 20 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 2 of 3 copies available at Nantahala Regional Library.
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- 0 current holds with 20 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Graham County Library | F MCC (Text) | 80605001290765 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Moss Memorial Library | F MCC (Text) | 80605001665263 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Murphy Public Library | F MCC (Text) | 80605000417427 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 11/07/2024 |
