Blood meridian: or the evening redness in the west

R$ 55,90

Sinopse

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. ‘Cormac McCarthy’s violent lyric masterpiece, Blood Meridian acquires an amoral, apocalyptic dimension through the Miltonic grandeur of the language . . . It is a barbarously poetic odyssey through a hell without purpose’ Irish Times ‘McCarthy’s achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect . . . He is a great writer’ Independent ‘A bloody and starkly beautiful tale’ Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times

Participantes

Autor: Cormac Mccarthy

Autor

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Cormac McCarthy nasceu no estado de Rhode Island, em 1933. Na juventude, serviu à Força Aérea dos Estados Unidos durante quatro anos, e estudou Artes na Universidade do Tennessee. É autor de nove romances, e vencedor do National Book Award e do National Book Critics Circle Award.

Em 40 anos de carreira literária, produziu nove romances, entre eles Todos os Belos Cavalos, A Travessia e Cidade das Planícies, que o autor batizou de Trilogia da Fronteira. Onde os velhos não têm vez, lançado nos Estados Unidos em 2005, está sendo adaptado para o cinema pelos irmãos Joel e Ethan Coen, com estréia prevista para 2007. Avesso a entrevistas, Cormac McCarthy gosta de manter sua privacidade.