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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. (Luisterboek): 9781440780653
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Luisterboek: 16 mei 2007
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4.1
Romans literatuur
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. (Luisterboek): 9781440780653
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Luisterboek: 16 mei 2007
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31 jan 2022
Beste boek aller tijden.
R
5 mei 2023
Perfect. Perfect in writing, story telling, narration, visualization, minimalism and character development.
AJ
7 jun 2022
"Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West", is Cornac McCarthy at his best. The novel, set in the Mexican / American West is (as in the case of all prior McCarthy) novels a study into violence, philosophy and writing itself. It is a masterpiece best defined by the following passage:"It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.”
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1 mei 2021
Het einde was me een beetje te prozaïsch. Maar goed geschreven lelijk verhaal.
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