Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West.

by McCarthy, Cormac

$9,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

London: Picador, 1989. First British edition of the author's classic fifth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by George Sharp. An exceptional example, uncommon signed. Blood Meridian seems to me the authentic American apocalyptic novel, more relevant even in 2000 than it was fifteen years ago. The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and of Faulkner. I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable as Blood Meridian (Harold Bloom). McCarthy can only be compared with our greatest writers, with Melville and Faulkner, and this is his masterpiece (Michael Herr).

• Publisher: Picador
• Year: 1989
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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