num_pages: 335
description: Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
language: English
title: Blood Meridian
titlecomplete: Blood Meridian
characters: Benjamin Tobin, Judge Holden, Louis Toadvine, John Jackson, The kid, David Brown, John Joel Glanton
genres: American, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Horror, Classics, Westerns, Fiction
ratings_count: 150136
places: The United States of America, Texas, Mexico
publisher: Picador UK