Blood Meridian
内容简介
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts 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 the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
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作者简介
Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy (born July 20, 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island), is an American novelist who has written ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres.
Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. He is frequently compared by modern reviewers to William Faulkner and sometimes to Herman Melville.
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读书文摘
星星眨也不眨地燃烧，在夜里慢慢靠近。黎明时，他在最接近天空的山脊的暗岩中跌跌撞撞，这片贫瘠的山脉被包围在这华丽的屋舍中，星海在他脚边冲刷，迁徙燃烧着的碎片混乱无序地不停在他周围穿梭。在黎明前的光线中，他走上了一块岬角，成为那块土地第一个感受日出温暖的生物。
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