the Modern Library cover of Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (1985)
Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West
- Author: Cormac McCarthy (b. 1933)
- Rank: #63
- Published: 1985
- Publisher: Random House
- Pages: 337
- First Lines: “See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt.”
- Last Line: “Then they all move on again.”
- ML Edition: Gold Edition
- Acclaim: Runner-up – Best Novel of the Last 25 Years (New York Times – 2006); All-TIME 100
- Film: forthcoming
- First Read: Spring, 2002 (more…)
