Blood Meridian (Picador Collection)

Brutally violent, Blood Meridian is the seminal work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers—his magnum opus. This powerful, mesmerizing, and savagely beautiful novel is a brilliant subversion of the Western form and a blazing example of it.

Through the hostile landscape of the Texas–Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean swept up in a relentless tide of blood. He joins the Glanton gang, who hunt Indigenous Americans, collecting scalps as bloody trophies. Central to this violence is Judge Holden: a massive, hairless man, mysterious, erudite, and singularly extreme in his sadistic violence.

• A seminal work of American fiction by Cormac McCarthy.
• Explores the relentless violence of the nineteenth-century American South and borderlands.
• Part of the Picador Collection, showcasing the best of modern literature.
• Features the unforgettable character of Judge Holden.

• Author: Cormac McCarthy
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition: Main Market
• Publication Date: February 17, 2022
• Print Length: 384 pages
• ISBN 10: 1529077168
• ISBN 13: 978-1529077162
• Dimensions: 130mm x 25mm x 197mm
• Weight: 260g
• Reading Age: 18 years and up

Experience the novel praised by The Times: ‘Imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided by Satan, wrote a western’.