Review of 'Blood Meridian'.

Blood Meridian exists on a level all its own. A western novel at its core, it satisfies, and then some, all of the requirements of the category. A masterwork that hits all of the dots, Blood Meridian has lyricism, poetry, story, and musings philosophic, intertwined with sheer horror, populated by horrendous characters that are still definitely plausible in all of their ott noxious. Oh, lets not forget sheer ambiguity that comes thru as just the facts, just the way that it is. The banality of this hell world maybe is its most annoying undercurrent. Blood Meridian exists on a level all its own.

John Glanton was a Texan originally from South Carolina by way of Tennessee, like so many other Texans. Shades of todays Blackwater and personal mercenary groups in the Middle East and now more here in the U. Chihuahua city. S. . The historic threads, good and noxious, the mythology and fact. Set against a tripartite of a Mexican, Angl o, and Indigenous American back drop Maybe the most fantastic thing about this novel is that while nothing good actually ever occurs, Mcarthy trains you not to expect it.

Shades of todays Blackwater and non-public mercenary groups in the Middle East and now more here in the U. S. .