num_pages: 351
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, or, the Evening Redness in the West
titlecomplete: Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
characters: John Joel Glanton, Louis Toadvine, John Jackson, Benjamin Tobin, Judge Holden, The kid, David Brown
genres: Historical, Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 150182
places: Texas, Mexico, The United States of America
publisher: Vintage Books