Author of the National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier. His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path toward destiny, he witnesses unknown horrors and suffering-and yet, as if shielded by the almighty hand of God, he survives to breathe another day. Earning McCarthy comparisons to greats like Melville and Faulkner, Blood Meridian is a masterwork of rare genius. Gifted narrator Richard Poe wields the author's prose like a man born to speak it.
© 2007 Recorded Books, Inc. (Äänikirja): 9781440780653
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Äänikirja: 16. toukokuuta 2007
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Author of the National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier. His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path toward destiny, he witnesses unknown horrors and suffering-and yet, as if shielded by the almighty hand of God, he survives to breathe another day. Earning McCarthy comparisons to greats like Melville and Faulkner, Blood Meridian is a masterwork of rare genius. Gifted narrator Richard Poe wields the author's prose like a man born to speak it.
© 2007 Recorded Books, Inc. (Äänikirja): 9781440780653
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Äänikirja: 16. toukokuuta 2007
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Tiina
24. heinäk. 2020
A stunning combination of poetry and extreme brutality, set in the American West and masterfully narrated by Richard Poe. Absolutely brilliant but not for the squeamish.
Tommi
26. lokak. 2022
Great text, though very harsh
Chris
7. heinäk. 2021
Blood Meridian is a gruesome tale of the old West. It’s an adventure novel, but don’t expect glossy cowboy tales of valor and light adventure. This is probably a very realistic depiction of the expansion to the West, where lawlessness and death were but means to an end: the American dream. It is very violent and the author offers no explanation for the characters’ obscene behavior. McCarthy’s prose has no equal though, and in its gruesomeness it is a beautifully written book.
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