Blood Meridian, or Sunset Crimson in the West
14.99 €
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Blood Meridian, or Sunset Crimson in the West
14.99 €
Cormac McCarthy is a modern American classic of major caliber, winner of the MacArthur Fellowship "For Genius", a master of complex experiences and non-standard syntax, well known to our readers novels "No Place for Old Men Here" (the Coen brothers' film based on this book won four Oscars), "The Road" (won the Pulitzer Prize and was also screened) and "Border Trilogy" (the first novel of which, "Horses, Horses...", won the U.S. National Book Award and was transferred to the screen by Billy Bob Thornton).", won the U.S. National Book Award and was transferred to the screen by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz). But for the first time McCarthy became famous for his novel "Blood Meridian, or Sunset Scarlet in the West", it was after this book about him spoke not only literary critics, but also the general public. The venerable Englishman John Banville, Booker Prize winner, called this novel "a kind of mixture of Dante's Inferno, The Iliad and Moby Dick". The protagonist of "Blood Meridian", a fourteen-year-old teenager from Tennessee, known only as "the kid", becomes the hero of the latest epic, based on real events and circumstances of the Texas-Mexican borderland in the mid-19th century, where a booming market in Indian scalps ... "Blood Meridian" was listed as one of the "100 Best Books in the English Language Published Between 1923 and 2005" by Time magazine. In 2006, The New York Times placed the novel at number two on its list of the best American prose published in the last 25 years.
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- All books in the series The Big Novel