Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy · 1985 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

A runaway boy of fourteen drifts into Texas in 1849 and falls in with the Glanton gang, paid by the Mexican states for Apache scalps and soon indifferent to whose hair they bring in. Riding with them is Judge Holden, a hairless giant fluent in every language and science, who argues that war is God. The West with the consolation taken out.

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• influenced by ↑ Moby-Dick
  Herman Melville · 1851 CE · Novel

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