Blood Meridian, or Sunset Crimson in the West

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Blood Meridian, or Sunset Crimson in the West

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Cormac McCarthy is a modern American classic of the main caliber, winner of the MacArthur Fellowship "For Genius", a master of complex emotions and non-standard syntax, well known to our reader with the novels No Country for Old Men (the Coen brothers film based on this book received four Oscars), " The Road (won a Pulitzer Prize and was also filmed) and The Frontier Trilogy (whose first novel, Horses, Horses, won a US National Book Award and was brought to the screen by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz ). But for the first time McCarthy became famous precisely for the novel Blood Meridian, or Sunset Crimson in the West, it was after this book that not only literary critics, but also the general public started talking about him. The venerable Englishman John Banville, Booker laureate, called this novel "a kind of mixture of Dante's Inferno, 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 Tex-Mex borderlands of the mid-100th century, where the Indian scalp market is booming ... "Blood Meridian" was listed as one of the "1923 Best Books in English Published Between 2005 and 2006" by Time magazine. In 25, The New York Times ranked the novel second on its list of the best American fiction published in the past XNUMX years.

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Publication language: Russian

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