Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting 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 a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. 'Cormac McCarthy's violent lyric masterpiece, Blood Meridian acquires an amoral, apocalyptic dimension through the Miltonic grandeur of the language ...It is a barbarously poetic odyssey through a hell without purpose' Irish Times 'McCarthy's achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect ...He is a great writer' Independent 'A bloody and starkly beautiful tale' Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times
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İnsanların savaş hakkında ne düşündüğünün bir önemi yok, dedi yargıç. Savaş sürer. İnsanlara taş hakkında ne düşündüklerini sormak da öyle. Savaş her zaman vardı. İnsan var olmadan önce, savaş onu bekliyordu. Nihai zanaat, nihai uygulayıcısını bekliyordu. Öyleydi ve öyle kalacak. Bu şekilde, başka türlü değil.
