Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy is a contemporary American classic of the highest caliber, a MacArthur genius grant recipient, a master of complex experiences and unconventional syntax, well known to our readers for the novels "No Country for Old Men" (the film by... the Coen brothers based on this book won four Oscars), "The Road" (which won the Pulitzer Prize and was also adapted into a film) and the "Border Trilogy" (the first novel of which, "All the Pretty Horses," received the National Book Award and was adapted for screen by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz). But McCarthy first gained fame with the novel "Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West," and it was after this book that he became a topic of discussion not only among literary critics but also among the general public. The eminent Englishman John Banville, a Booker Prize laureate, called this novel "a kind of mixture of Dante's 'Inferno,' 'The Iliad,' and 'Moby Dick.'" The main character of "Blood Meridian," a fourteen-year-old boy from Tennessee known only as "the Kid," becomes the hero of a modern epic based on real events and circumstances of the Texas-Mexican border in the mid-19th century, where the market for Indian scalps is rapidly developing...
"Blood Meridian" was included in the list of "100 Best Books in English Published from 1923 to 2005" according to Time magazine. In 2006, The New York Times placed this novel second on its list of the best American prose published in the last 25 years.