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Book Review of Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
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Helpful Score: 3


This book is brilliant. It may be the best written book I've ever read, both stylistically and in the clarity of its vision. But that may keep it from being a good book. Cormac McCarty believes, at least as he comes across in these pages, that violence trumps everything else. It is a deeply disturbing vision, one to which I cannot assign the adjective 'good.'